Re: base-files 1.6 (source all) uploaded to master

[gsstark@mit.edu (Gregory S. Stark)]

Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es> writes:
> On 7 Apr 1998, Carey Evans wrote:
> > Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es> writes:
> > > How many shells [*] do not understand \w as the current directory?
> > 
> > Which ones _do_?  I can only get bash to do so, out of bash, ash, ksh,
> > zsh, tcsh, zsh emulating sh and zsh emulating ksh.  Not all of them
> > read /etc/profile, of course.
> 
> Ok, the right question would be "From the ones which do read /etc/profile,
> which ones do not understand \w as the current directory?"
> 
> Anyway, I remember a Slackware trick to set the default prompt
> for many different shells. Could not we do the same?

Am I the only one who thinks the only correct prompts would be '$ ' and '# '?

Barring that I suggest leaving the defaults, 'bash$' et. al.

greg
 


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