Re: How to include `$$' literally in the PS1 prompt?

[Clark J. Wang]

On 9/30/07, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
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> "Clark J. Wang" <dearvoid@gmail.com> writes:
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> > Anybody has any idea?
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> PS1='[\\$\\$=$$ \w] \$ '


Sure it works but I don't think this is the way it should be. In this way,
to include `\\' in the prompt we have to write like this:

$ PS1='\\\\\\\\'

It's really hard to read and understand. Isn't it a bug?

Andreas.
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