On 12/30/2016 06:46 PM, eryk sun wrote: > On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 7:49 PM, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Is there a special reason bourne shell uses $ and #? > > To me, "$" is for the [$]tandard shell prompt, and "#" noticeably > distinguishes root shells.
Yes of course. You missed my point completely. These prompts have meaning only because they were picked arbitrarily. Bourne shell could well have used # for user prompt and $ for the root prompt. >> Coming from an old DOS background (>) I found that rather jarring at first. > > DOS is a single-user system with no security, so it doesn't need to > distinguish standard and root prompts. Again I think you missed my point. Or you read more into it than I gave. I was not confused by the unix prompts. I understood the difference between root and normal user. Rather I liked the appearance of the Windows-style prompt simply because I was used to it. Now I prefer the bash prompt and I greatly value the different root prompt character. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
