On Mon, 4 May 2015 00:02:11 -0600 Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote:
> Petter Adsen wrote:
> > Brad Rogers wrote:
> > > PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\
> > > [\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '
> >
> > Excuse me if this is a dumb question, but what does the
> > "debian_chroot" part (twice) do?
>
> Basic shell substitution. The task there is to include "(foo)" in the
> prompt if debian_chroot is set to foo. Initially you might think, I
> will use $debian_chroot and if it is empty then it will be empty and
> if it is set to foo then it will expand to foo. Almost works. That
> would expand to "foo" not "(foo)" with the parens around it.
>
<snip for brevity>
> The ${parameter:+word} construct is used a lot of shell programming.
>
> Editorial remark: I really wish the author of /etc/debian_chroot had
> simply made that /etc/chroot_name or some such. Because by naming it
> /etc/debian_chroot guarantees that no other distribution will pick
> that convention up and use it. If it had been /etc/chroot_name or
> something non-distribution specific then it would have been possible
> to share across other distributions. Sigh.
Bob,
Thank you very much for your detailed explanation, it was very
enlightening. Just recently, I downloaded all the bash documentation
from tdlp.org and have slowly begin making my way through it. As a
rule, I don't like putting things in my scripts that I do not
understand, and this was a very nice feature.
Thanks again,
Petter
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