On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:38:02 +0100 Nicolas Vilz <niv@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Just a note: > > this doesn't work with bash 3.2. I think they altered the way of > trimming variables in this version. > > on systems with bash 3.2 installed, i get > [master!linus-2.6/vm/vm]$ > with the example above. > > on systems with bash 3.1, it works properly. Sorry bout that, I knew it was a bit fragile. Was rather comical reading Junio's recent message about all the things not to do if you want portable shell code and noticing my 6 line script did 90% of them ;o) Strange though, I downloaded Bash 3.2 and gave it a try and didn't see the problem here.. Wanna try this small change, to see if it helps? : #!/bin/bash BR=$(git symbolic-ref HEAD 2>/dev/null) || { echo "$@" ; exit ; } BR=${BR#refs/heads/} REL=$(git rev-parse --show-prefix) REL="${REL%\/}" LOC="${PWD%/$REL}" echo "[$BR!${LOC/*\/}${REL:+/$REL}]$ " - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html