Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 19:53:03 +0100
From: Andreas Kusalananda =?utf-8?B?S8OkaMOkcmk=?=
<andreas.kah...@abc.se>
Message-ID: <Ye71jwgBhenC33RD@box>
| Why would people want it to do that (i.e. export PS1)?
It isn't exporting PS1 that's the issue, it is importing it. And that
I rely on quite frequently. (Of course, it has to be exported by something
to be imported elsewhere - which gives the reason why one would want to
export PS1).
Eg: I am often working with several variants of the same basic shell
(various bug fixes, or attempts at them, or new features being developed)
and I want to get some hint of which variant I have running in some particular
window, so when I run test code, and it works, or doesn't, I know which
variant did what).
To do that, given that they are 99.9% identical shells (including all startup
scripts etc) I just do
PS1='bugfix1 $ ' /path/to/shell1
PS1='newfeat $ ' /path/to/shell2
PS1='standard$ ' /bin/sh
(in different windows, one for each, of course), then however I move
the windows around, or whatever else I do (aside from changing PS1
obviously) I always know which variant is running.
If a shell refused to import PS1, this wouldn't work.
kre
