what about @Q and renoving the beginning and ending ' s
On Sun, Aug 22, 2021, 23:13 Emanuele Torre <torreemanue...@gmail.com> wrote: > It would be nice to have a parameter transformation (e.g. "${par@p}") > that expands $par to a string that will not be expanded by PS1, PS2, &c. > > example: > > tmp_var=$(blabla) # this variable will not exist when PS1 is expanded > PS1="blabla ${tmp_var@p} blabla" > > I think a valid way to achieve the same behaviour in the currenct > version of bash: > > tmp_var=$(blabla) > tmp_var=${tmp_var//\\/\\\\} > tmp_var=${tmp_var//\`/\\\`} > tmp_var=${tmp_var//$/\\$} > PS1="blabla $tmp_var blabla" > > But a parameter transformation would be nicer. > > This parameter transformation should also make sure to not cause an > expansion when concatenated. > > var='$' > printf '%s\n' "${var@p}" # should not expand to `$'. > PS1="${var@P}(date)" # because this should expand to `$(date)' > # and not to the output of `date'. > > Cheers, > emanuele6 > >