<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jan 30, 2013, at Jan 30 12:30 PM, "David Book" <<a href="mailto:davidbook@enigmatics.com">davidbook@enigmatics.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">Mary and Daniel . . .<br>
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To continue our discussion, I have two questions.<br>
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First question: Earlier I pointed out a peculiarity in my prompts. The prompt when I am in my home directory reads<br>
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<span style="font-family: courier new;">Book@Book-Enigmatics ~</span> rather than <span style="font-family: courier new;">Book</span><br>
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When I do a <span style="font-family: courier new;">cd ..</span> the prompt reads <span style="font-family: courier new;">Book@Book-Enigmatics /home</span> <br>
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When I do another <span style="font-family: courier new;">cd ..</span> the prompt reads <span style="font-family: courier new;">Book@Book-Enigmatics /</span><br>
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This is the same as the prompt in my home directory, except that a slash has replaced the tilde.<br></span></blockquote><div><br></div><br></div><div>To unambiguously find out what your current working directory is, use pwd.</div><div>Most properly, since pwd can be a shell builtin, typing /bin/pwd will return your</div><div>current working directory path.</div><div><br></div><div>The prompt is set up within the shell startup and is the PS1 environment variable.</div><div>It looks like yours is the default setup for cygwin.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://superuser.com/questions/6522/change-cygwin-prompt">http://superuser.com/questions/6522/change-cygwin-prompt</a></div><div><br></div><br></body></html>