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Re: Prompt in Bash [fixed]



Will Lowe <lowe@cis.udel.edu> writes:

> Yup,  kill the "eval" and life is good.  Thanks,  Mr. Browning.

You're welcome, but sheesh, call me Rob :>

One final word for those who were following this thread.

This

  if [ ${PS1:-UNSET} = UNSET ]

should have been

  if [ "${PS1:-UNSET}" = UNSET ]

Without the quotes, you can get problems when you have a prompt with
escape characters.

-- 
Rob


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