On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 03:32:56PM -0600, ktb wrote: > This may be hard to explain but I'll try. I have this in my > /home/kent/.bashrc, > > case $TERM in > xterm*) > PS1="\[\033]0;\u@\h: \w\007\]\w\$ " > ;; > *) > PS1="\w\$ " If you check, you'll notice that the $PS1 variable contains just a $ character, not a \$ sequence. This is the problem. The reason for this is that bash is interpreting "\$" to mean the $ character, since $ is normally a metacharacter. So, you either have to enclose it in single quotes (so it won't interpret any metachatacters) or you have to put in the \\ sequence to get the actual \ in the string. For example, $ su - Password: # PS1="\w\$ " ~$ echo $PS1 \w$ ~$ PS1="\w\\\$ " ~# echo $PS1 \w\$ ~# PS1='\w\$ ' ~# echo $PS1 \w\$ ~# -- finger for GPG public key. 29 Nov 1999 - new email address added to gpg key
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