Re: How to show path with backslash '\' in it in the prompt?

[Peng Yu]

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> On 7/10/10 9:57 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a directory named '\E' (two letters, rather than a single
>> special character). I have the following $PS1 variable.
>>
>> $ echo $PS1
>> ${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$
>>
>> When my current directory is '\E', the prompt shows a special
>> character (I think that it should be the special character '\E'). I'm
>> wondering if there is a way to change $PS1 to show two characters '\'
>> and 'E'.
>
> I don't get this behavior with bash-4.1.  It may be PROMPT_COMMAND
> that is messing up your display.

No. I don't think that it is because of PROMPT_COMMAND. I set
PROMPT_COMMAND to the following command. But the prompt doens't
change. It only print an additional line whenever I run a command.

export PROMPT_COMMAND=echo

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Regards,
Peng