[gnu.bash.bug] Suggestions

drw@BOURBAKI.MIT.EDU (08/16/89)

In the README file, you should make it clear that
'decode_prompt_string' is a C function that the value of PS1/PS2 is
fed through, not a bash command function.

Could you support a $cwd variable?

Dale

chet@kiwi.CWRU.EDU (Chet Ramey) (08/16/89)

In article <8908160321.AA07596@schubert.mit.edu> drw@BOURBAKI.MIT.EDU writes:

>Could you support a $cwd variable?

What's wrong with $PWD?

Chet Ramey




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bfox@AUREL.CALTECH.EDU (Brian Fox) (08/18/89)

   Date: Tue, 15 Aug 89 23:21:17 EDT
   From: drw@bourbaki.mit.edu

   In the README file, you should make it clear that
   'decode_prompt_string' is a C function that the value of PS1/PS2 is
   fed through, not a bash command function.

   Could you support a $cwd variable?

The value of the current working directory is kept in $PWD.

brian