Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 15:43:01 -0800 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> To: bastill@adam.com.au Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PS1 command! ? Message-ID: <20030212234301.GA87465@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <1045092718.3e4ad96e29fcd@webmail.adam.com.au> References: <1045092718.3e4ad96e29fcd@webmail.adam.com.au>
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On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:01:58AM +1030, bastill@adam.com.au wrote:
> *) PS1="$(PS1)S ";;
> Yet on login I get this error message:
> bash: PS1: command not found
$(foo) is the same as `foo`. It runs the command "foo" and uses its
output. So the shell is looking for a command called PS1.
You want ${PS1} (curly braces, not parentheses). I think your mind has
been tainted by Makefiles which use $(foo) for variable substitution.
--
Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * Science rules.
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