Date: 16 Oct 1999 13:23:27 -0400 From: Arcady Genkin <a.genkin@utoronto.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bash's "\$" in PS1 doesn't work right Message-ID: <87aepjxlrk.fsf@main.wgaf.net> In-Reply-To: Arcady Genkin's message of "Sat, 16 Oct 1999 13:10:19 -0400" References: <87g0zbxmdg.fsf@main.wgaf.net>
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Arcady Genkin <a.genkin@utoronto.ca> writes: > I have the following in .bashrc: > export PS1="\h:\w\$ " > > However, the "\$" doesn't result in "#" for root. I get the "$" sign. > "set" reports: > PS1='\h:\w$ ' Now that I read my own message, I noticed that "set" reports PS1 wrong, without backslash before the dollar sign. That must be the reason... OK. I solved it by changing the double quotes into single quotes in .bashrc. Sorry for the noise. -- Arcady Genkin http://wgaf.dyndns.org "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (F. Nietzsche) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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