Strange behavior with PS1 prompt

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Sun Oct 18 12:41:14 UTC 2009


Cameron Simpson wrote:
> This is all beautiful, but I think you need to use single quotes
> instead of doubles.

You are correct, of course.  I was only concerned with testing the
escape character stuff and I totally overlooked the problem that using
double quotes causes with ${PWD}.  Thanks for catching that! :)

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