KSH PSx won't quote exclamation points
Jan Steinman
jans at stalker.gwd.tek.com
Fri Oct 17 03:32:36 AEST 1986
In article <3957 at amdahl.UUCP> krs at amdahl.UUCP (Kris Stephens) 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.
Try: PS1=amdahl!!krs
Very Unix-like. To rob a meta-character of its special properties, double it.
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