On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 9:00 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> Backslash-escape evaluation happens before parameter expansion, as
> documented.
Oh duh the unquoted `~' is expanded by echo. Sorry for the noise.
On 3/12/17 5:14 PM, Grisha Levit wrote:
> The manual says [1]:
>
> In addition, the following table describes the special characters which
> can
> appear in the prompt variables PS1 to PS4:
>
> ..which misses PS0 (and seems to imply that PS3 gets expanded in this
> fashion as well).
>
>
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.
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