Re: ! in PS1 in posix mode

[isabella parakiss]

On 10/11/15, isabella parakiss <izaberina@gmail.com> wrote:
> In posix mode, bash replaces ! in my PS1 with the history number.
>
> $ PS1=' ! '
>  ! set -o posix
>  513 exit
>
> It doesn't happen with any other prompt escape sequence, afaict.
> This looks... intentional?  WTF?
>

Ok I've now read this page: http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/POSIX
This is awful.

I found out this by enabling set -o posix in my interactive shell.  bash
replied with an endless loop of syntax errors because there's this in my
PS1:  ${var[a != b]}
Then bash decided to eat up as much cpu and memory it could grab, and I
had to kill-9 it.

I understand that changing the standard in unfeasible but a syntax error
in PS1 shouldn't destroy the shell.


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xoxo iza