On 8/22/21 5:11 PM, Emanuele Torre wrote: > It would be nice to have a parameter transformation (e.g. "${par@p}") > that expands $par to a string that will not be expanded by PS1, PS2, &c.
So you want it to be expanded at some point, but its value not subject to any of the prompt string expansions (\a, \d, \t, and so on)? > > example: > > tmp_var=$(blabla) # this variable will not exist when PS1 is expanded This seemns to be the key requirement. Otherwise, you would be able to simply write PS1="blabla \${tmp_var} blabla" as others have suggested. I'm not sure that requires a new transformation (which would have to be much more completely specified than it has been so far). -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/