On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 01:52, Nicholas Lativy wrote: > > PS1="\[\033]0;\$\w/\007\]\$\w/: " > > I tried this here and got the same as you report, a "$" for root > instead of the expected "#". Then I used: > > PS1='\[\033]0;\$\w/\007\]\$\w/: ' > > and that worked! I played about a bit and consistently the latter > quoting style produced the expected result but the former did not. I > have no idea why this is (a bug?)
It is a consequence of shell quoting rules. "..." does variable substitution and backslash escaping, '...' does no substitution or escaping. -- 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 yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape." I Thessalonians 5:2,3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
