Re: Dealing with strange shell prompts

[Daniel Pittman]

On Mon, 09 Sep 2002, Kai Gro wrote:
> Pete Forman <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> I've tested env on IRIX 6.5 and AIX 4.3.  Every standard UNIX
>> platform should have env.
> 
> Good.  I have now changed Tramp to do "exec env PS1='$ ' /bin/sh"
> instead of just "exec /bin/sh".  We'll see if it helps.

Not for rc, if you care. ;)

If you use "exec env 'PS1=$ ' /bin/sh" you should get it working there
as well.

This should also be portable to anywhere in the world.
     Daniel

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