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From: brahms@spp5.UUCP (Bradley S. Brahms)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: KSH PSx won't quote exclamation points
Message-ID: <344@spp5.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Oct-86 19:07:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: spp5.344
Posted: Thu Oct 16 19:07:12 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 18-Oct-86 23:43:06 EDT
References: <3957@amdahl.UUCP>
Reply-To: brahms@spp5.UUCP (Bradley S. Brahms)
Organization: TRW, Redondo Beach  CA
Lines: 16
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.  I even
>tried saving the desired string in another variable and just including
>the variable in the PS description.  Samples:

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

Try PS1='amdahl!!krs'

It works.

			-- Brad Brahms
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