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From: krs@amdahl.UUCP (Kris Stephens)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: KSH PSx won't quote exclamation points
Message-ID: <3957@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 15-Oct-86 19:09:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: amdahl.3957
Posted: Wed Oct 15 19:09:41 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 16-Oct-86 00:04:23 EDT
Organization: Amdahl Corp, Sunnyvale CA
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Keywords: PS1, PS2, PS3

In the Korn Shell (ksh), I'm trying to set my PS1 to include my system-
name and userid as     amdahl!krs     and no matter how I quote the
exclamation, it gets interpreted as the command process number.  I even
tried saving the desired string in another variable and just including
the variable in the PS description.  Samples:

   PS1='amdahl"!"krs ...'   or      PS1='amdahl"\!"krs ..."
                           gives
   amdahl123krs ...         or      amdahl\123krs ...
  ----------------------------------------------------------
   MYLOC='amdahl!krs'       or      MYLOC='amdahl\!krs'
   PS1='$MYLOC ...'                 PS1='$MYLOC ...'
                         also gives
   amdahl123krs ...         or      amdahl\123krs ...
  ----------------------------------------------------------

How can I get a real printable exclamation into a Prompt String????

Thanks.
-- 
Kris Stephens     (408-746-6047)                 {whatever}!amdahl!krs
     [The opinions expressed above are mine, solely, and do not    ]
     [necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of Amdahl Corp. ]