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Re: 2 regressions related to PROMPT_COMMAND
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Greg Wooledge |
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Re: 2 regressions related to PROMPT_COMMAND |
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Date: |
Mon, 2 Mar 2009 08:43:05 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.4.2.2i |
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 10:29:00PM -0800, smallnow wrote:
> Bug #1:
> do:
> PROMPT_COMMAND='$(cd)'
I've never found any reasonable use for PROMPT_COMMAND. If you just
want to perform command substitutions at prompt-writing time, use PS1:
PS1='$(pwd)\$ '
Of course, this trivial example is more efficiently done with:
PS1='$PWD\$ '