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From: bamford@ihuxy.UUCP (Bamford)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: KSH PSx won't quote exclamation points
Message-ID: <1625@ihuxy.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Oct-86 19:56:23 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 16 19:56:23 1986
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> 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 "

It seems that to "escape" the exclamation mark, use another
exclamation mark.
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				Harold Bamford
				AT&T Bell Labs
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