Bug 42570 – PS1 variable should contain the current path

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Florian Effenberger 2004-02-23 03:38:31 UTC]

The PS1 variable should contain the current path

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Minati jean michel 2004-02-23 06:19:11 UTC]

why ?

[Comment 2 Florian Effenberger 2004-02-23 06:35:26 UTC]

It makes sense to see the current path :-)

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2004-02-23 14:08:59 UTC]

the default user PS1 contains the path already

[Comment 4 Florian Effenberger 2004-02-23 14:12:34 UTC]

With the default installation, root has

PS1="\\[\\033[01;31m\\]\\h \\[\\033[01;34m\\]\\W \\\$ \\[\\033[00m\\]"

which does not show the *FULL* (e.g. `pwd') path.

[Comment 5 Joshua Kinard 2004-02-23 14:19:11 UTC]

Eh, if you show the full path, your prompt can get pretty large.  Just showing the cwd is good enough; users can easily just type 'pwd' to get the full path.

[Comment 6 Florian Effenberger 2004-02-23 14:28:46 UTC]

Okay, its up to you. Was just a suggestion ;-)
Maybe you could document in /etc/profile on how to show the full path.

[Comment 7 SpanKY 2004-02-23 19:55:23 UTC]

`man bash` and go to the section entitled PROMPTING

[Comment 8 solar (RETIRED) 2004-02-25 11:48:40 UTC]

seems that PS1 could be shortened down to
PS1='\e[01;31m\h \e[01;34m\W \$ \e[00m'