On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 08:24:01PM +0000, Krongard, William T. (BLM) wrote: > Description: > execution of "bash" from shell window gets a division by zero message > # bash > bash: (1-0/roothome1): division by 0 (error token is "roothome1)") > bash: (1-0/roothome1): division by 0 (error token is "roothome1)") > > every command executed is followed by the division by 0 message
This will be caused by something in your environment -- either the PS1 variable, or the PROMPT_COMMAND variable, or a DEBUG trap, which is being set in one of root's dot files on your system. Most probably, you've got $(( )) where you meant to have $( ), or something along those lines. It'll probably be obvious once you print out the contents of the PS1 and PROMPT_COMMAND variables, and the output of "trap" with no arguments.
