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[Paul Mahon <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>]

That's a bug in bash. Which is, incidentaly, fixed in 3.0. You could put
in $(pwd) instead of \w if it really bugs you.

On Sun, 2004-25-07 at 11:43 +0200, Bas van Gils wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been wondering about my prompt... After the reinstall of my work-box, I
> still had my old homedir available so I didn't have to create a new .bashrc
> and such. I have defined my prompt as follows:
> 
>     export PS1='\[\033[01;31m\]\u@\h:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\$ \[\033[00m\]'
> 
> And when I first log in the prompt I see is indeed:
> 
>     basvg@loki:~$ 
> 
> However, if I move around a bit and cd to some dir I get something like 
> this:
> 
>     basvg@loki:/home/basvg/work/projects$
> 
> cd'ing back to $HOME then gives me, as was to be expected:
> 
>     basvg@loki:/home/basvg$
> 
> Even though this is just a `small inconvenience', it's been bugging me for a
> few days now. I have no idea why this doesn't work. It used to! Can anyone
> help me out?
> 
>     Cheers
> 
>         Bas
> 
> 
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