"Clark J. Wang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 9/30/07, Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> "Clark J. Wang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Anybody has any idea? >> >> PS1='[\\$\\$=$$ \w] \$ ' > > > Sure it works but I don't think this is the way it should be. In this way, > to include `\\' in the prompt we have to write like this: > > $ PS1='\\\\\\\\' > > It's really hard to read and understand. Isn't it a bug?
No. There are two levels of expansion, each using the same quote character (the backslash). You can disable the second level with `shopt -u promptvars', so that quote removal is not applied to the value. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
