From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 25 9:37:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hyperhost.net (ether.lightrealm.com [207.159.132.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40F811504D for ; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 09:37:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patseal@hyperhost.net) Received: from foobar.foobar.yi.org (p2.a8.du.radix.net [207.192.132.130]) by hyperhost.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA03739; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 12:35:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: by foobar.foobar.yi.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5A94A1382B6; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 12:30:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 12:30:47 -0400 From: Patrick Seal To: Doug Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bash: space in cd arg bug? Message-ID: <19990825123047.B72342@hyperhost.net> References: <19990824213027.A1375@hyperhost.net> <19990825111131.C83273@freebie.lemis.com> <19990824220553.A3811@hyperhost.net> <37C414D9.C73072C3@gorean.org> <19990825122646.A72342@hyperhost.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.7i In-Reply-To: <19990825122646.A72342@hyperhost.net> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD foobar.foobar.yi.org 3.2-STABLE FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE Organization: Hyperhost Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 12:26:46PM -0400i, Patrick Seal wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 09:07:53AM -0700i, Doug wrote: > > Patrick Seal wrote: > > > > > Actually I just found the problem. I had been using my own version of cd to > > > change my rxvt title to the current directory: > > > > FYI, you don't really need to do that. Take a look at > > http://freebsd.simplenet.com/Bash-prompts.txt. > > > > Good luck, > > > > Doug > > > > I use a modified mandrake's purple prompt that gives me a lot of information. > When Blackbox (my WM) is iconifying windows, it only keeps a list of what is > iconified and puts it in a menu. It is much easier to distinguish: > > xterm:/usr/src > and > xterm:/home/patseal > > than > > xterm > and > xterm > > That's why I use it. > > Thanks for the info, I really really should have read the webpage you pointed out. All of what I said was based on the assumption that the page contained information abouth puting $PWD in the actual prompt. This page is great, thanks. -- ------------------------------------ _____________________________________ Patrick Seal |"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make | really crappy operating systems." Hyperhost - http://www.hyperhost.net| -Linus Torvalds To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message