Date: 17 Oct 1999 03:57:42 +0200 From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bash's "\$" in PS1 doesn't work right Message-ID: <7ubaem$8q3$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <87g0zbxmdg.fsf@main.wgaf.net> <87aepjxlrk.fsf@main.wgaf.net> <86ogdyn6p3.fsf@localhost.hell.gr>
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Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> If you had used
>
> export PS1="\\h:\\w:\\\$ "
>
> it would have worked without a glitch,
The situation is further muddied by the fact that Bourne compatible
shells (such as bash) only substitute the backslash escapes '\\',
'\"' and '\$' inside double quotes. Other backslash combinations
are passed as is, i.e.
PS1="\h:\w:\\\$ "
produces the intended result.
--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de
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