I want to have a script, to change between a few prompts per the arg supplied. This is so I can quickly change from my glorious bells-and-whistles prompt to a plain prompt (eg for cut and paste to debian-user, just "$ " or "# " depending on current user) to a timestamped prompt (when I have some long-running process, and I want to see when it finished) etc.
In bash, we cannot run a script plainly, and have that script update the current shell's env. We could source the script with 'source' or '.' command, but this requires a correct location of the script to be entered, which is slow and not ideal. I want to be able to run the script as a command. So I thought, run the script in a subshell, executing the result, like: $ `ps1` The following 3-line script is meant to test exactly this: #!/bin/bash PS1=': ' echo "export PS1=$PS1" Note that in this example, the desired new prompt is a colon followed by a single space. The problem is, when I run this script as `ps1`, I get a changed prompt, but just to colon, not including the space. Does anyone know how I might have a space character included in my new prompt, using this `way` to change my prompt? TIA Zenaan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOsGNSQhMnbEjBBecPYBiF4m20HZ6Av_fZE6EV=ofyaqfgd...@mail.gmail.com
