Hi,
I have this weird problem with pwd in the latest Cygnus
installation. I mentioned it last week; here's a simple
shell session that demonstrates the problem:
administrator@NDEV04C ~
$ pwd
/cygdrive/d/home/steve
administrator@NDEV04C ~
$ cd ..
administrator@NDEV04C ~/..
$ pwd
/cygdrive/d/home/steve/..
administrator@NDEV04C ~/..
$ cd steve
administrator@NDEV04C ~/../steve
$ pwd
/cygdrive/d/home/steve/../steve
administrator@NDEV04C ~/../steve
$ cd ../steve
administrator@NDEV04C ~/../steve/../steve
$ pwd
/cygdrive/d/home/steve/../steve/../steve
administrator@NDEV04C ~/../steve/../steve
$
Notice that the problem is not just with the prompt string;
that's just a symptom. The real problem is with pwd.
(Actually, I think it might be with the way cd sets the $PWD var.)
Anyway, if anyone else is having this problem, I came up with a
really kludgy work-around, which I put in my .bashrc:
alias pwd="perl -e 'use Cwd; print cwd() . \"\n\"'"
export PS1='`pwd`$ '
Obviously you must have Perl installed for this to work.
Any insight into this problem would be greatly appreciated.
Steve Molitor
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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