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How do I get GNU screen not to start in my home directory in OS X?

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Problem

GNU 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 or ) always places me in my home directory . In Linux and OS X Tiger, new screens have a of wher…

Error Output

$ cd ~/foo
$ pwd
/Users/ben/foo
$ screen
$ pwd
/Users/ben/foo
$ screen # or ^A c
$ pwd
/Users/ben/foo

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A better way to check what exactly is being run when you type would be to run . This will tell you whether it's running a binary (in which case the full path will be given) or a shell alias, function, etc. Another thing to check is whether there's a…

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