Hi Aaron, > so I don’t know what your point was. You originally wrote: > Note that it is convention for commands that should be ran with sudo > to be prefixed with a # . That is wrong as it suggests # sudo ... but root, as indicated by PS1='# ', would not need to sudo. My reply tried to explain this: > That sounds a little mixed up. > PS1='$ ' for commands run by the user, PS1='# ' for those run by root. > sudo is run by the user so it should be '$ '. I expect you knew this but just typo'd or thinko'd '$' for '#'. I replied because the OP might be confused if you thought they needed explaining to them. Then tippfehlr joined in. I don't think any of us are in disagreement. We just aren't taking the necessary time. -- Cheers, Ralph.