Michael J Gruber <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > - Bash interpretes '\' only when PS1 is assigned, not when an expansion > in PS1 produces it. What you probably mean is that bash does not rescan expansions for backslash escapes, thus only literal occurences in PS1 are processed (which is consistent with ordinary expansion). Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html