On 10/12/15 7:02 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: >> It happens in posix mode. > --- > How lame! It's a '!' in a quoted string. Another example > of posix braindeath -- how long before people realize that the > thing branded 'posix' now isn't the real posix that was started > to *describe* behaviors, not prescribe or proscribe behaviors.
Do you realize that this prompt expansion was in ksh since at least ksh-86? ksh-88 was one of the Posix base documents, and that expansion was estabished behavior by the time Posix started its work. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/