On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 10:10, Daniel M. wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I have the following lines in ~/.bash_prompt (for all users): > > ------------------------------------------------------ > # set prompt and window title (if running in X terminal) > > case $TERM in > xterm*) > PS1="\[\033]0;\$\w/\007\]\$\w/: " > ;; > *) > PS1="\$\w/: " > ;; > esac > ------------------------------------------------------ > > The problem is, that when I log in as a root, '$' is displayed > instead of '#'. > > Why is that so - '\$' is supposed to display '#' if the effective > uid is 0, and how it can be corrected?
Quoting, I think. Because you are using double quotes, the backslash is being interpreted by the shell as an escape character, as if you were specifying a literal dollar sign. Use single quotes instead. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F A543 10EA ======================================== "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first; Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord." I Thessalonians 4:16,17 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
