problem with bash -- probably

1997-11-30 Thread jebstar
I'm new to the Debian community. I've used Slackware before. Debian's package tools are reasonably good. I found it easy to install. But a few things are definitely different like the standard shell environment setups are stripped bare. I'm running the Debian system from a network

Re: problem with bash -- probably

1997-11-30 Thread David Stern
You want something like this in your $HOME/.bashrc : PS1=[EMAIL PROTECTED] \W]\\$ export PS1 There are man pages that deal with this in detail. David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: problem with bash -- probably

1997-11-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:... I thought bash always prepended the pwd to the commands so that it would always find a shell script in the current directory. bash doesn't do so by default; it uses the search path In the .bash_profile for my user login shell, I set the path as follows:

RE: problem with bash -- probably

1997-11-30 Thread Bill Leach
I am not sure what is going on with your system. However, the fact that . is not in your search path is rather standard with any Linux/Unix distribution that even so much as pays lip service to the idea of security. Not as critical for ordinary users as for root of course, but by not