How do I get GNU screen not to start in my home directory in OS X?
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GNU Screen (screen
) behaves differently on OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and 10.6 (Snow Leopard) compared to Linux (at least Ubuntu, Red Hat, and Gentoo) and OS X 10.4 (Tiger). In 10.5 and 10.6, new screens (made with screen
or ^A
c
) always places me in my home directory ~
. In Linux and OS X Tiger, new screens have a pwd
of wherever the screen was created originally.
Made up examples to illustrate what I mean:
Tiger:
$ cd ~/foo
$ pwd
/Users/ben/foo
$ screen
$ pwd
/Users/ben/foo
$ screen # or ^A c
$ pwd
/Users/ben/foo
Leopard, Snow Leopard:
$ cd ~/foo
$ pwd
/Users/ben/foo
$ screen
$ pwd
/Users/ben
$ screen # or ^A c
$ pwd
/Users/ben
How do I get Leopard and Snow Leopard to behave like Tiger used to?
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