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From: dpw@rayssd.UUCP (Darryl P. Wagoner)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: KSH PSx won't quote exclamation points
Message-ID: <278@rayssd.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 19-Oct-86 11:03:14 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 19 11:03:14 1986
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Sender: dpw@rayssd.UUCP (Darryl P. Wagoner @ Raytheon Co., Portsmouth RI)
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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.  I even
> tried saving the desired string in another variable and just including
.
.
> 
> How can I get a real printable exclamation into a Prompt String????
> 
The way to do it is:

	PS1='amdahl!!krs'

Who would have guessed?
-- 
Darryl Wagoner	Raytheon Co.; Portsmouth RI; (401)-847-8000 x4089

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