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From: tif@doorstop.austin.ibm.com (Paul Chamberlain)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: "!" in KSH prompt
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Date: 26 Jul 90 22:35:50 GMT
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Does anyone know the trick to getting an unexpanded "!" in a KSH prompt?

I've tried back-slashing, quoting, and temporary variables.  It doesn't
seem to matter what I do, it expands it to the current command number.  I
like to have my prompt hi-lighted so I embed a "`tputs smso`...`tputs
rmso`" in my PS1 but one of my terminals has a "!" in the necessary escape
sequence.  This has very undesirable results.

It's conceivable that different versions could differ in this respect since
my ksh does not handle the PS1='$(date)' type of thing.  Any ideas???

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