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Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)

Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)

Posted Dec 8, 2011 8:42 UTC (Thu) by thedevil (subscriber, #32913)
In reply to: Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks) by wahern
Parent article: Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)

You know about PS1 and the magic characters you can use in it, right?


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Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)

Posted Dec 8, 2011 9:31 UTC (Thu) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]

What part about "right-hand prompt" and "no approximations" did you not understand?

Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)

Posted Dec 8, 2011 18:33 UTC (Thu) by clump (subscriber, #27801) [Link]

What part about "right-hand prompt" and "no approximations" did you not understand?
Not helpful. There are many ways to have the prompt echo the current working directory. One such way is to use a right hand prompt in zsh, there are others as well. No need to attack people for mentioning that.

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