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From: perlspinr AT att DOT net
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Cygwin BASH prompt a little weird?
Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 18:53:40 +0000
Message-Id: <20020506185342.QGHB2855.mtiwmhc25.worldnet.att.net@webmail.worldnet.att.net>

Hello,

In Cygwin using this version of BASH, my attempts to get 
a simple name of the shell interpreter into my prompt 
(PS1) using escaped-s ('\s'), which should work accoding 
to
http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-
HOWTO/bash-prompt-escape-sequences.html
does not give the basename of of the shell but the 
relative path by which I invoked bash: '/bin/bash'.

The HOWTO above states:
\s     the  name  of  the shell, the basename of $0
            (the portion following the final slash)

Is Cygwin not compliant with this?

  Thanks,
    Soren Andersen

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