Re: OT: integrating git branch output into ksh PS1 shell prompt?

[Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas]

Fred Snurd fredsn...@yahoo.com writes:

 Git fans like to know what branch is current, and bash's implementation
 of PS1 allows for update each time it is displayed. All of my attempts
 of adding a call to a ksh function into PS1 appear to be evaluated at
 the time that PS1 is set, but not upon each new display of the shell
 prompt. Does anyone have suggestions on how to have ksh execute
 a function upon each display of PS1?

Use single quotes, eg.

_ps1_err() {
local _rc=$?
[ $_rc -ne 0 ]  printf %s $_red
return $_rc
}
PS1='\h \w\[$(_ps1_err)\]\$\[$_nc\] '

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OT: integrating git branch output into ksh PS1 shell prompt?

[Fred Snurd]

Git fans like to know what branch is current, and bash's implementation of PS1 
allows for update each time it is displayed.  All of my attempts of adding a 
call to a ksh function into PS1 appear to be evaluated at the time that PS1 is 
set, but not upon each new display of the shell prompt.  Does anyone have 
suggestions on how to have ksh execute a function upon each display of PS1?

Thanks!