Sorry, I forgot to tell you why PS1 will not export: You need to be able
to test it in shell scripts to see if you are in an interactive shell. If
it was exported, that mechanism would not work.
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On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Bill Carlson wrote:
=>On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Stan Isaacs wrote:
=>
=>> > The full comment in /etc/bashrc on my machine (RH6.0) is:
=>> >
=>> > # For some unknown reason bash refuses to inherit
=>> > # PS1 in some circumstances that I can't figure out.B
=>> > # Putting PS1 here ensures that it gets loaded every time.
=>> > PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ "
=>> >
=>> > Sounds pretty clear to me.
=>>
=>> Thanks for quoting it for me. That's exactly the question I'm asking:
=>> What is the "unknown reason"? Has anybody figured out the circumstances?
=>> Then maybe I could decide if it's worth while to pull the setting out of
=>> /etc/bashrc.
=>>
=>
=>I don't have an older box handy, but IIRC that comment has been there for
=>quite a while, it might be an old bug in bash that whomever created the
=>comment worked around rather than figure out. One could try commenting it
=>out in /etc/bashrc and see what happens.
=>
=>Bill Carlson
=>
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