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Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 15:54:09 -0400
From: Alan Dobkin <Alan AT ADobkin DOT Net>
To: Cygwin <Cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
cc: Soren Andersen <perlspinr AT att DOT net>
Subject: Re: Cygwin BASH prompt a little weird?
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It works for me:

$ PS1='\s-\v\$ '
bash-2.05a$ 

Alan

--On Monday, May 06, 2002 6:53 PM +0000 perlspinr AT att DOT net wrote:

> 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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