On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > On 7/10/10 9:57 PM, Peng Yu wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a directory named '\E' (two letters, rather than a single >> special character). I have the following $PS1 variable. >> >> $ echo $PS1 >> ${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}...@\h:\w\$ >> >> When my current directory is '\E', the prompt shows a special >> character (I think that it should be the special character '\E'). I'm >> wondering if there is a way to change $PS1 to show two characters '\' >> and 'E'. > > I don't get this behavior with bash-4.1. It may be PROMPT_COMMAND > that is messing up your display.
No. I don't think that it is because of PROMPT_COMMAND. I set PROMPT_COMMAND to the following command. But the prompt doens't change. It only print an additional line whenever I run a command. export PROMPT_COMMAND=echo -- Regards, Peng