Marco,
Thanks for the tip. It helped a bit, I guess, but I still have
the same basic problem. Here's a new session:
[administrator@NDEV04C steve]$ echo $PS1
[\u@\h \W]$
[administrator@NDEV04C steve]$ cd ..
[administrator@NDEV04C ..]$ cd steve
[administrator@NDEV04C steve]$ cd ..
[administrator@NDEV04C ..]$ cd steve
[administrator@NDEV04C steve]$ pwd
/cygdrive/d/home/steve/../steve/../steve/../steve/../steve
[administrator@NDEV04C steve]$
As you can see, pwd displays the whole history of how I got to the cwd.
So I don't think it's a prompt string problem; something is weird with pwd.
Hmmm.....
Steve Molitor
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----Original Message-----
From: Craveiro, Marco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 3:03 AM
To: Molitor, Stephen
Subject: RE: pwd problems
Hello Stephen,
How is your PS1 setup? Mine uses \W and it works fine... Try changing your
.profile to something
like:
PS1="[\u@\h \W]$ "
Marco
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Molitor, Stephen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 5:35 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: pwd problems
>
> I just installed the latest version of Cygwin. I have a
> strange problem with pwd -- instead of just showing the current
> directory, it shows how I cd'd there, with '..' and stuff.
> Here's an example, that I pasted from a bash session:
>
> administrator@NDEV04C ~
> $ pwd
> /cygdrive/d/home/steve
>
> administrator@NDEV04C ~
> $ cd ..
>
> administrator@NDEV04C ~/..
> $ cd steve
>
> administrator@NDEV04C ~/../steve
> $ cd ..
>
> administrator@NDEV04C ~/../steve/..
> $ cd steve
>
> administrator@NDEV04C ~/../steve/../steve
> $ cd ..
>
> administrator@NDEV04C ~/../steve/../steve/..
> $ cd steve
>
> administrator@NDEV04C ~/../steve/../steve/../steve
> $ pwd
> /cygdrive/d/home/steve/../steve/../steve/../steve
>
> administrator@NDEV04C ~/../steve/../steve/../steve
> $
>
> Curiously, this problem does not occur if I'm underneath the root ('/')
> directory.
>
> Any help would be appreciated!
>
> Steve Molitor
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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