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Re: ! in PS1 in posix mode
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: ! in PS1 in posix mode |
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Mon, 12 Oct 2015 20:24:13 -0400 |
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On 10/12/15 7:02 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
>> It happens in posix mode.
> ---
> How lame! It's a '!' in a quoted string. Another example
> of posix braindeath -- how long before people realize that the
> thing branded 'posix' now isn't the real posix that was started
> to *describe* behaviors, not prescribe or proscribe behaviors.
Do you realize that this prompt expansion was in ksh since at least
ksh-86? ksh-88 was one of the Posix base documents, and that
expansion was estabished behavior by the time Posix started its work.
--
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``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
- ! in PS1 in posix mode, isabella parakiss, 2015/10/11
- Re: ! in PS1 in posix mode, isabella parakiss, 2015/10/11
- Re: ! in PS1 in posix mode, Chet Ramey, 2015/10/11
- Re: ! in PS1 in posix mode, Linda Walsh, 2015/10/12
- Re: ! in PS1 in posix mode, Chet Ramey, 2015/10/12
- Re: ! in PS1 in posix mode, Linda Walsh, 2015/10/12
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- Re: ! in PS1 in posix mode, Linda Walsh, 2015/10/13
- Re: ! in PS1 in posix mode, Bob Proulx, 2015/10/16