tech-userlevel: sh not expanding vars

Subject: sh not expanding vars
To: Julio Merino <jmmv@hispabsd.org>
From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 10/02/2002 00:22:38

Julio Merino writes:

> export PS1="\`pwd\`$ "

why don't you just use PS1='`pwd`$ ' (single quotes),
or even better PS1='$PWD$ '.

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Matthias Buelow, mkb#at#informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de