KSH PSx won't quote exclamation points
Ed Horch
ebh at cord.UUCP
Sat Oct 18 01:07:54 AEST 1986
In article <3957 at amdahl.UUCP> krs at amdahl.UUCP writes:
>In the Korn Shell (ksh), I'm trying to set my PS1 to include my system-
>name and userid as amdahl!krs and no matter how I quote the
>exclamation, it gets interpreted as the command process number.
Do this:
PS1="amdahl!!krs " # TWO !'s
The extra space at the end makes long prompts easier on the eye. If
you don't want it, you don't need the "'s.
The two-! feature is (to the best of my knowledge) undocumented. It
was a lucky guess on my part. Any comments, Dave (congrats on the DMTS)?
-Ed Horch ihnp4!cord!ebh
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