On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 07:53:03PM +0100, Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri wrote: > I was honestly a bit surprised to see bash picking up PS1 from the > environment. Why would people want it to do that (i.e. export PS1)?
It removes the need for bash to re-set it from .bashrc every time a new interactive shell is initialized. Just a personal choice, really. > The cd and pwd utilities are expected to provide particular output. A > system administrator often sets the bash shell's prompt, and having > the shell output unwanted escape sequences to the terminal through the > prompt may be somewhat of a surprise to users who do not know or care > about modifying PS1 in their startup scripts. [...] I don't have a strong opinion about this issue, but I lean toward the side of "leave it alone". The only time it will become an issue is if a user successfully navigates into a directory with terminal escape sequences in its name. This is probably hard to pull off, and if a user *does* manage it, I think they won't be too shocked by the results. While I could see such a user coming here to complain about it, the fact that this hasn't ever happened (at least as far as I'm aware) means this isn't a realistic problem that needs to be addressed. It's extremely hypothetical.
