Getting custom prompts to work under v1.3.1
Hello again.
First off, I'd like to thank Mr. Pitts and Mr. Maze, who very kindly
answered my previous mail.
Now, (and a little more to the point :) here 0is my present dilemma:
I have been a long time DOS user, and I'm quite accustomed to having a
prompt with the path you're in, like this:
C:\>
And when one changes a directory, I'm used to seeing the prompt reflect
that, like so:
C:\>cd apps
C:\apps>
So I tried to do the same thing under linux. I edited my .bash_profile
(which should give you an idea of what type of shell I'm using :) and added
this:
PS1="$PWD> "
Because, after all, typing "declare" showed me that PWD was the variable for
my current directory. I logged out, then back in (because source
.bash_profile is starting to act funny on my system), and got a very nice
prompt:
/home/tlineman>
However, when I "cd ..", my prompt remained the same. When I typed source
.bash_profile, my prompt changed and showed
/home/>
So now I assume that I have to have some type of replacement for cd that
will do something like this:
cd $* <--(thanks Dave!)
source .bash_profile
Any suggestions?
Tom
P.S. Thanks to all who replied, but when I tried mounting my cdrom drive, I
got an error message. Phooey. Browsing through /dev/ I decided to try
sbpcd0. (In case you were wondering, I asked if a slave device on a primary
IDE controller would be /dev/hdb) It worked when I mounted it, but I have
really no idea why. (Not that I'm complaining, of course)
Anyhow, would adding a line in /etc/fstab help me when I mount a file system
not mentioned in there? Thanks.
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