On 12/16/24 4:26 AM, Rob Landley wrote:
Aha: the "promptvars" option gratuitously expands PS1 _twice_:
Gratuitously? It performs a separate set of expansions from the backslash-escape sequence decoding. People use it to add a little more dynamism to prompting. Think about evaluating one of the bash dynamic variables or, as you show, using command substitution.
$ touch potato $ PS1='$(rm potato)' bash --noprofile --norc exit exit $ ls -l potato ls: cannot access 'potato': No such file or directory And you default it to on. Good to know.
It's always defaulted to on, Rob. For about 30 years now. Before that
variable existed, bash performed word expansions on PS1 unconditionally.
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