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Bob Latham <
bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> wrote:
> I can indeed ssh into my pi with this latest build all be it with
> many lines of dots first.
>
> Well done and thank you. Greatly appreciate what you`ve done.
That`s good. I`ve made a pull request to the upstream repository (ie asked
them to accept my changes).
> One slight oddity though which is probably going to show my ignorance
> more than anything else.
>
> When you log in, is shows the usual default..
> pi@name:~$
>
> But it became clear very quickly that in fact it was at..
> pi@name:~/home/pi~$
~ is a shortcut for your home directory, eg /home/pi if you are the `pi`
user (the default on Pi OS)
~bob is a shortcut for the home directory of user bob, eg /home/bob
As an aside, the same goes for URLs, eg in:
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~theom/ephemeral/Nettle_0-2050b-1_arm.zip
~theom is the (web) home directory for user `theom`.
> I don`t think it`s possible to get above that into the root and then
> into boot or etc.
You can cd to change directory, ie:
cd /etc
As druck says, some places you can`t cd as a normal user, you need to use
`sudo`. Or you can cd but you can`t edit any files.
> Why would it do that, putty.exe doesn`t?
Maybe Putty is doing a cd command for you? I`m not sure why you would land
in a different place otherwise.
One other thing to note is the `pi@name:~$` is called your shell prompt, and
you can change it via an environment variable PS1:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bash/Prompt_customization
For example, I can type:
PS1="\\$(date) \\$(pwd) : "
and now the prompt looks like this, with the time and current directory
shown in full:
Thu 27 Jul 21:48:35 BST 2023 /home/pi :
Thu 27 Jul 21:49:00 BST 2023 /home/pi :
Thu 27 Jul 21:49:01 BST 2023 /home/pi : cd /
Thu 27 Jul 21:50:02 BST 2023 / :
> I`m most grateful for you efforts but I don`t really understand what
> it`s doing.
If you need a place to ask for help on the Pi OS side, I can recommend the
newsgroup comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Theo
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