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Re: PS1 prompt problem
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: PS1 prompt problem |
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Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:55:15 -0400 |
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Nils wrote:
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> Yes, that was the problem, I did not take into account that bash
> expands $PS1 twice.
No, it doesn't. It performs additional expansions besides those
specified by Posix.
> Is this double expansion even POSIX compliant?
Yes.
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