On 10/8/07, Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "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.
Thank you so much. 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." >
