On 3/12/17 4:46 PM, Grisha Levit wrote: > For example: > > $ PS1='\w $(echo \w) $ ' > ~ /home/levit $
Backslash-escape evaluation happens before parameter expansion, as documented. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/