Bug 54509
| Summary: | Problem with long compound PS1 values | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | ken_laird |
| Component: | pdksh | Assignee: | Karsten Hopp <karsten> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-08-24 21:36:10 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Verified. I see no sense in having a prompt which is so long that it needs to wrap. Easy fix: don't do that. Strip the prompt to the last or the last two directories. This is sufficient to know your current working directory. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-12smp i686) Description of problem: If a user sets their PS1 value to PS1="<${MACHINE#hpspk}:"'${PWD}'"> " and then cd's down a very long directory path such that the length of the resulting prompt nears 80 characters, characters no longer echo on the command line. If you cd a step or two back up the directory path, echoing of characters typed returns. If you create a PS1 value that is a very long simple string instead of a compound value as above, the shell shifts the prompt to the left to make room for command-line typing. And the command line shifts left as needed as you type. So the problem only seems to be with a compound PS1 value. The Bash shell seems to handle this without the problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Set your PS1 value to something like that listed above 2.cd down a long directory path such that it will take close to 80 characters to display 3. Then try typing something at the command line. Actual Results: Command line characters are not echoed when the compound PS1 prompt value gets very long. Expected Results: Expected prompt to either wrap or shift left to accomodate. Additional info: