On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 11:30:19AM +0200, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:15:13 +0200 > Charles Trois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am getting confused with profile, bashrc, etc. > > The prompt string I want to use is > > > > PS1="[EMAIL PROTECTED] \W]\$ " > > > > [...] > > I thought that /etc/profile should provide the default, but I was > > obviously wrong. Trying to mend things, I created two files > > /root/.bash_profile and /root/.bashrc, writing just PS1 in each. Now, > > logging in as root, the result is > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]$ > > > > which is wrong, since "$" appears in place of "#", as though my syntax > > of PS1 were incorrect, but I don't see that it is. > > That's probably due to multi level backslash escaping. Because you > surrounded the prompt string with "", the backslash isn't surviving the > first parser run by bash. You'd need to double it or even triple it > (because the "$" may need escaping on the first level, too).
Use single quotes if you want to use \$ $ is a reserved character in bash. So when using double quotes, you need to type \\$ sep wwong # export PS1="[test]\$ " [test]$ export PS1="[test]\\$ " [test]# export PS1='[test]\\$ ' [test]$ export PS1='[test]\$ ' [test]# W -- "Dude, this is making the same approximation twice in a row. It's like a whack-a-mole game." ~DeathMech, Some Student. P-town PHY 205 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 33 days, 15:41 -- [email protected] mailing list
