Re: ! in PS1 in posix mode

[Chet Ramey]

On 10/12/15 7:02 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:

>> It happens in posix mode.
> ---
>     How lame!  It's a '!' in a quoted string.  Another example
> of posix braindeath -- how long before people realize that the
> thing branded 'posix' now isn't the real posix that was started
> to *describe* behaviors, not prescribe or proscribe behaviors.

Do you realize that this prompt expansion was in ksh since at least
ksh-86?  ksh-88 was one of the Posix base documents, and that
expansion was estabished behavior by the time Posix started its work.


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