On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 06:17:20AM +0000, Tom Furie wrote: > I think the point is that it's a lot easier to overlook "root" buried > somewhere in the middle of a long prompt than it is to overlook a "#" > right next to the cursor.
Stan's example is trivially fixed by replacing the static '$' with '\$' (and ensuring the string remains single-quoted)
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