Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 04:18:23 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Chip <chip@wiegand.org> Cc: Boris Stoev <darko@uni-svishtov.bg>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Directory path Message-ID: <20000321041823.B17616@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <00032017042101.05398@chip.homenet>; from chip@wiegand.org on Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 05:03:39PM -0800 References: <20000320163853.B81662@hades.hell.gr> <00032017042101.05398@chip.homenet>
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On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 05:03:39PM -0800, Chip wrote: >On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 12:55:09PM +0200, Boris Stoev wrote: >>> >>>Maybe my question is stupid but... >>>How can I make bash prompt to display my current directory path... >>>I use FreeBSD 3.4 ... >> What you want is \w, as shown in: >> >> export PS1='[\w] ' ... >> or some more funky variation of this :) > >Doesn't the comand pwd show the currant path? >It does for me. It does for me too. But having your bash fork and exec() a subshell to execute `pwd` and capture the same output that \w could give, just to display what bash can do with \w is a bit of an overkill, don't you think? - Giorgos Keramidas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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