On Thursday 11 February 2010 11:16:15 John wrote:
> On 11/02/10, Jon Dowland (j...@debian.org) wrote:
> | I've never met a bash that displays anything other than '#'
> | for '\$' in PS1. Can you give an example of one that does?
> 
> From .bashrc:
> 
> # root; red
> #export PS1='\[\033[0;31...@\w# \]'
> # sid: green
> export PS1='\[\033[0;32...@\w$ \]'
> # magenta
> #export PS1='\[\033[0;35...@\w$ \]'
> # yellow
> #export PS1='\[\033[0;33...@\w$ \]'
> # blue
> #export PS1='\[\033[0;34...@\w$ \]'
> # cyan
> #export PS1='\[\033[0;36...@\w$ \]'

None of those are examples of what Jon D. requested.  Your example would have 
to use '\$' (not just '$') in PS1.
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