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Re: $PWD and ~+ (and others) in documentation

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From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: $PWD and ~+ (and others) in documentation
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:26:48 +0100
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On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:48:41 +0200
Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Should I fix this, or does nobody care? And by fix, do I mean changing
> the appropriate occurrences of "$PWD" to "the current working
> directory" or something else? :)

I think that's the right change:  assigning to PWD is for scripts, as
you noted, and the prompt should show the real working directory.

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