[indiana-discuss] Code review request

David.Comay at Sun.COM David.Comay at Sun.COM
Thu Jan 31 21:05:26 PST 2008


> 3. AFAIK the "\\w" can be replaced with "\$PWD" (or "\${PWD}") - making
> this more portable (e.g. it should work with bash and ksh93)

One reason to use "\\w" is that it will print tilde (~) for the home
directory or subdirectories under that.  ${PWD} will expand to the full
path which is both a lot more verbose and seems different from that
other vendors do.

dsc


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