[LUNI] Customize the PS1 promptMartin Maney maney at pobox.comFri Jun 6 12:07:03 CDT 2003
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 06:57:01PM -0500, Mike Crawford wrote: > Doing something like PS1='`pwd`\\$' will have pwd evaluated each time, > but that, as I said, screws up $?, it will always report 0, or at least > it did that when I created my uber prompt. Interesting. With the simple ...\`pwd\`.. prompt setting, that doesn't seem to be the case here: maney at windhover /home/maney $ true maney at windhover /home/maney $ echo $? 0 maney at windhover /home/maney $ false maney at windhover /home/maney $ echo $? 1 maney at windhover /home/maney $ bash --version GNU bash, version 2.05a.0(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu) It makes perfect sense for bash not to forget the "real" last-run process's result just because it runs a throwaway process in the prompt. "You remember what you want to remember, and you forget what you want to forget. You dig?" -- The vulnerabilities will come, a couple of them a week, for years and years...until people stop looking for them. Waiting six months isn't going to make this OS [Windows XP] safer. -- Bruce Schneier
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