continuously evaluated prompts/environmental variables

2013-11-26 Thread Edward Peschko
All, I was wondering if there was a way to make an environmental variable be evaluated each time it was accessed. In other words, with: export PS1="`whoami`@`hostname`" This works for the first time that the prompt is evaluated, what I would like to have is a prompt to be continuously evaluated,

Re: File name/Line numbers with tracing output.

2010-08-24 Thread Edward Peschko
Eric, Cool, I had used bashdb before, didn't know it could trace.. Anyways, thanks, I'll try it out. Ed On 8/24/10 6:12 AM, "Eric Blake" wrote: On 08/23/2010 08:27 PM, Edward Peschko wrote: > All, > > I've been working lately at upgrading my debugging tool

File name/Line numbers with tracing output.

2010-08-24 Thread Edward Peschko
All, I've been working lately at upgrading my debugging tools and procedures, and have come to looking how I can improve debugging bash. I know about bash -x , but its terribly annoying because, even though it shows the evaluated text, there is no explicit way to tie that output back to the sc