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Mistake in basic-commands about pwd

Bug #138891 reported by Heikki Mäntysaari
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ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubuntu-docs

In Basic commands -document there is a following text about pwd:
"For example, typing pwd in the Desktop directory, will show ~/Desktop."
This is incorrect, because pwd shows the full path:
$ cd ~/Desktop
$ pwd
/home/heikki/Desktop

This mistake is at least in Gutsy.

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/karmic/ubuntu-docs
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Niall Jackson (niallj-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I have sent a patch for this to the mailing list, which also corrects some spelling/punctuation points on the same page.

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Phil Bull (philbull) wrote :

Thanks for the bug report. Could you attach your patch to this bug please, Niall?

Changed in ubuntu-docs:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
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Niall Jackson (niallj-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Patch uploaded.

Sorry it took me so long :)

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Phil Bull (philbull) wrote :

Thanks for the patch Niall, I've uploaded this to SVN trunk, r4456.

Changed in ubuntu-docs:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Mads Peter Rommedahl (lhademmor) wrote :

hmm... I have a correction to the patch: At one place it uses something like "/home/Your Username Here/blahblah" where I think it would be more appropriate to just use "/home/username/blahblah" since spaces in paths and stuff could confuse the reader.

Comments?

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Niall Jackson (niallj-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I'm so sorry about that. This has already been discussed on the mailing list, and I believed I'd sorted it.

Patch for this particular issue is attached- and should *definitely* be fixed this time.

Apologies again >.<

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Phil Bull (philbull) wrote :

Thanks Niall and Mads, I've committed the updated patch to SVN trunk (r4463).

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Dean Sas (dsas) wrote :

As I reported in bug 152778 there is an error with this patch. roots homedir is /root not /home/root.

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Phil Bull (philbull) wrote :

Re-opening due to issue with patch.

Changed in ubuntu-docs:
status: Fix Committed → Confirmed
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Phil Bull (philbull) wrote :

Fix committed (patch from Ben/kenpokarateboy2), revision 3648.

Changed in ubuntu-docs:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-docs - 8.02.1

---------------
ubuntu-docs (8.02.1) hardy; urgency=low

  * New bzr checkout - loads of text fixes and improvements (LP: #183148,
    LP: #183025, LP: #178064, LP: #160435, LP: #158016, LP: #146794,
    LP: #144795, LP: #185867, LP: #163188, LP: #150167, LP: #148372,
    LP: #144928, LP: #141491, LP: #141444, LP: #138891, LP: #172565,
    LP: #144285, LP: #150641, LP: #176678)
  * First release for hardy

 -- Matthew East <email address hidden> Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:31:20 +0000

Changed in ubuntu-docs:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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