Package: bash
Version: 3.1dfsg-8
Severity: important
PS1 (the "normal" prompt of bash) is set (in /etc/bash.bashrc?) independently of
whether the invocation was done interactively or non-interactively.
This makes non-interactive access undestinguishable from interactive access,
which sometimes may be desirable.
I haven't been able to find out the exact place where this happens. Also I've
been unable to track down when this might have happened.
To reproduce:
ssh remotehost 'echo $PS1'
ssh remotehost, then echo $PS1 (obviously)
Is there a relieble way to find out whether a shell is a (non-)interactive one?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24.2-hexe-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages bash depends on:
ii base-files 4 Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii debianutils 2.17 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand
bash recommends no packages.
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