PS1 command! ?

2003-02-12 Thread bastill 
My .bash_profile contains
# First prompt is definitely PS1 (PSnumeral-one)

PS1=\u@\h \w 
 case 'id -u' in
0) PS1=$(PS1)# ;;
*) PS1=$(PS1)S ;;
 esac

My .bashrc contains:
# same prompt lines from .bash_profile
# note that it is PSnumeral-one not PSlowercaseL

PS1=\u@\h \w 
 case 'id -u' in
0) PS1=$(PS1)# ;;
*) PS1=$(PS1)S ;;
 esac

Yet on login I get this error message:
bash: PS1: command not found

and the prompt is S
Why? and how can I fix this?

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Brian


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Re: PS1 command! ?

2003-02-12 Thread Matthew Hunt 
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:01:58AM +1030, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 *) PS1=$(PS1)S ;;

 Yet on login I get this error message:
 bash: PS1: command not found

$(foo) is the same as `foo`.  It runs the command foo and uses its
output.  So the shell is looking for a command called PS1.

You want ${PS1} (curly braces, not parentheses).  I think your mind has
been tainted by Makefiles which use $(foo) for variable substitution.

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Re: PS1 command! ?

2003-02-12 Thread bastill 
Quoting Matthew Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:01:58AM +1030, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  *) PS1=$(PS1)S ;;
 
  Yet on login I get this error message:
  bash: PS1: command not found
 
 $(foo) is the same as `foo`.  It runs the command foo and uses its
 output.  So the shell is looking for a command called PS1.
 
 You want ${PS1} (curly braces, not parentheses).  I think your mind has
 been tainted by Makefiles which use $(foo) for variable substitution.

Well I'm blessed, said Pooh, being bothered.  :-)

So simple.  Works too.  Thanks.

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