Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.2.20030405081321.00fcb0b0@pop3.cris.com> X-Sender: rrschulz AT pop3 DOT cris DOT com Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2003 08:17:36 -0800 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Randall R Schulz Subject: Re: Bash and xterm window title In-Reply-To: <20030405160802.GC2216@cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Ajay, The preferred answer is: "Read the BASH manual, where the details of how to use the special escape codes recognized in the PS1 string are fully explained." To wit: -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- PROMPTING When executing interactively, bash displays the primary prompt PS1 when it is ready to read a command, and the secondary prompt PS2 when it needs more input to complete a command. Bash allows these prompt strings to be customized by inserting a number of backslash-escaped special characters that are decoded as follows: \a an ASCII bell character (07) \d the date in "Weekday Month Date" format (e.g., "Tue May 26") \D{format} the format is passed to strftime(3) and the result is inserted into the prompt string; an empty format results in a locale-specific time representation. The braces are required \e an ASCII escape character (033) \h the hostname up to the first `.' \H the hostname \j the number of jobs currently managed by the shell \l the basename of the shell's terminal device name \n newline \r carriage return \s the name of the shell, the basename of $0 (the portion following the final slash) \t the current time in 24-hour HH:MM:SS format \T the current time in 12-hour HH:MM:SS format \@ the current time in 12-hour am/pm format \A the current time in 24-hour HH:MM format \u the username of the current user \v the version of bash (e.g., 2.00) \V the release of bash, version + patchelvel (e.g., 2.00.0) \w the current working directory \W the basename of the current working directory \! the history number of this command \# the command number of this command \$ if the effective UID is 0, a #, otherwise a $ \nnn the character corresponding to the octal number nnn \\ a backslash \[ begin a sequence of non-printing characters, which could be used to embed a terminal control sequence into the prompt \] end a sequence of non-printing characters -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- I believe you're interested in the "\w" and / or "\W" sequences. Randall Schulz At 08:08 2003-04-05, you wrote: >Hi, > >I had some problem with a recent version of tcsh and so I'm using bash. The only problem I have >with bash is that it re-writes the window title with the current working directory. I use a script >to name(title) my xterms and bash overwrites it. tcsh does not do that. > >I set PS1="$ " and now it doesn't do it. The original PS1 is set to: > >$ echo $PS1 >\[\033]0;\w\007 \033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\] $ > >The desired behavior in my case is just the prompt gets updated with the PWD and not the window >title. > >How can I do this? > >TIA, > >-ajay -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/