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Re: errno in PS1 variable [patch included]


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: errno in PS1 variable [patch included]
Date: 25 Nov 2001 20:22:18 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.090003 (Oort Gnus v0.03) Emacs/21.1.30

Yonatan@xpert.com (Yonatan Bokovza) writes:

|> I thought I could gain a lot if the last
|> errno could be a part of my prompt.
|> The following patch makes this
|> PS1="\E "
|> show the last errno as the prompt.

In case you mean exit status instead of errno:

PS1='$? '

Andreas.

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