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From: jans@stalker.gwd.tek.com (Jan Steinman)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: KSH PSx won't quote exclamation points
Message-ID: <7770@tekecs.TEK.COM>
Date: Thu, 16-Oct-86 13:32:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: tekecs.7770
Posted: Thu Oct 16 13:32:36 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 17-Oct-86 04:02:40 EDT
References: <3957@amdahl.UUCP>
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Reply-To: jans@stalker.UUCP (Jan Steinman)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville, OR
Lines: 12
Keywords: PS1, PS2, PS3

In article <3957@amdahl.UUCP> krs@amdahl.UUCP (Kris Stephens) writes:
>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.

Try:  PS1=amdahl!!krs

Very Unix-like.  To rob a meta-character of its special properties, double it.

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