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Hi, |
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On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:15:13 +0200 |
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Charles Trois <charles.trois@×××××××.fr> wrote: |
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> I am getting confused with profile, bashrc, etc. |
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> The prompt string I want to use is |
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> PS1="[\u@\h \W]\$ " |
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> [...] |
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> I thought that /etc/profile should provide the default, but I was |
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> obviously wrong. Trying to mend things, I created two files |
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> /root/.bash_profile and /root/.bashrc, writing just PS1 in each. Now, |
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> logging in as root, the result is |
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> [root@sirrah root]$ |
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> which is wrong, since "$" appears in place of "#", as though my syntax |
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> of PS1 were incorrect, but I don't see that it is. |
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That's probably due to multi level backslash escaping. Because you |
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surrounded the prompt string with "", the backslash isn't surviving the |
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first parser run by bash. You'd need to double it or even triple it |
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(because the "$" may need escaping on the first level, too). |
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-hwh |
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