Re: Bash not escaping escape sequences in directory names

[Robert Elz]

    Date:        Mon, 24 Jan 2022 19:53:03 +0100
    From:        Andreas Kusalananda =?utf-8?B?S8OkaMOkcmk=?= 
<andreas.kahari@abc.se>
    Message-ID:  <Ye71jwgBhenC33RD@box>

  | Why would people want it to do that (i.e. export PS1)?

It isn't exporting PS1 that's the issue, it is importing it.   And that
I rely on quite frequently.   (Of course, it has to be exported by something
to be imported elsewhere - which gives the reason why one would want to
export PS1).

Eg: I am often working with several variants of the same basic shell
(various bug fixes, or attempts at them, or new features being developed)
and I want to get some hint of which variant I have running in some particular
window, so when I run test code, and it works, or doesn't, I know which
variant did what).

To do that, given that they are 99.9% identical shells (including all startup
scripts etc) I just do

        PS1='bugfix1 $ ' /path/to/shell1
        PS1='newfeat $ ' /path/to/shell2
        PS1='standard$ ' /bin/sh

(in different windows, one for each, of course), then however I move
the windows around, or whatever else I do (aside from changing PS1
obviously) I always know which variant is running.

If a shell refused to import PS1, this wouldn't work.

kre