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regarding bash: Incorrect treatment of \W in prompt
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Package: bash
Version: 4.1-3
Severity: normal
It seems that the bash prompt incorrectly spells root directories like
/boot, /home etc. Other directories seem to work fine.
To reproduce:
1) Start bash. Set PS1 like this:
export PS1="\W $ "
2) Go to the folder /boot. The prompt now says:
bott $
3) Go to the folder /home. The prompt now says:
hmee $
I wasn't able to understand if this is related to the other reports about
the prompt, so I wrote a new report. Feel free to merge it if I was wrong.
Best regards
Torquil Sørensen
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages bash depends on:
ii base-files 5.8 Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii dash 0.5.5.1-7 POSIX-compliant shell
ii debianutils 3.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-2 shared libraries for terminal hand
Versions of packages bash recommends:
ii bash-completion 1:1.2-2 programmable completion for the ba
Versions of packages bash suggests:
pn bash-doc <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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Version: 4.2-1~exp1
Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Ian Campbell wrote:
>> I noticed this with /anfs (becomes "afss" with \W) and it seems to occur only
>> for 4 and 5 letter directory names in /.
>
> This was fixed by bash 4.1 patch 10.
Seems to be fixed in experimental, too. Thanks, all.
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