Bug 52776 - prompt doesn't include leading / when one directory off root
Summary: prompt doesn't include leading / when one directory off root
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: bash
Version: roswell
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
QA Contact: Aaron Brown
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-08-28 23:34 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:36 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-08-28 23:34:09 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2001-08-28 23:34:05 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)

Description of problem:
In past versions, when I was in /etc, my prompt looked like this
[robert@linuxbox /etc]$
on roswell, I get this
[robert@linuxbox etc]$

Same PS1 variable set at default,   [\u@\h \W]\$

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
cd /etc

	

Actual Results:  prompt looks like
[robert@linuxbox etc]$

Expected Results:  prompt looks like
[robert@linuxbox /etc]$

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-08-29 10:34:05 UTC
This change was intentional, to be more consistant with the fact that we don't 
show [user@host 
/some/path/with/way/too/many/subdirectories/to/give/a/usable/prompt]$
either.




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