On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 19:43 -0700, Nick Schmalenberger wrote: > On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 08:59:58PM -0500, Chanoch (Ken) Bloom wrote: > > I was just navigating around on one of the machines in my lab, when I > > noticed something wierd: bash is getting the name of one of my > > directories wrong when it tries to print it in the prompt. > > > > [bloom@zuni ~]$ cd / > > [bloom@zuni /]$ ls > > bin/ etc/ lib/ media/ proc/ srv/ var/ > > boot/ home/ lib32/ mnt/ root/ sys/ vmlinuz@ > > data/ home-raid/ lib64@ nonexistent/ sbin/ tmp/ > > dev/ initrd.img@ lost+found/ opt/ selinux/ usr/ > > [bloom@zuni /]$ cd data > > [bloom@zuni dtaa]$ pwd > > /data > > [bloom@zuni dtaa]$ echo ~+ > > /data > > [bloom@zuni dtaa]$ mount > > /dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) > > tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755) > > proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) > > sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) > > udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755) > > tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) > > devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620) > > fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw) > > binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc > > (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) > > nas.lingcog.iit.edu:/home2 on /home-raid type nfs > > (rw,nosuid,noatime,addr=216.47.152.22) > > nas.lingcog.iit.edu:/data on /data type nfs > > (rw,nosuid,noatime,addr=216.47.152.22) > > > > It's correctly spelled in the pwd command, and bash's ~+ expansion, and > > also in the mount command (/data happens to be a mountpoint), so > > basically it's correctly spelled everywhere except for the prompt. Any > > ideas why? > > > What do echo $PWD and echo $PS1 say? $PS1 seems like the next > place to look, and particularly the \w part.
[bloom@zuni dtaa]$ echo $PS1 [\u@\h \W]\$ [bloom@zuni dtaa]$ echo $PWD /data _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech