On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:01:58AM +1030, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> *) PS1="$(PS1)S ";;
> Yet on login I get this error message:
> bash: PS1: command not found
$(foo) is the same as `foo`. It runs the command "foo" and uses its
output. So the shell is looking for a command called PS1.
You want ${PS1} (curly braces, not parentheses). I think your mind has
been tainted by Makefiles which use $(foo) for variable substitution.
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