tif@doorstop.austin.ibm.com (Paul Chamberlain) (07/27/90)
Does anyone know the trick to getting an unexpanded "!" in a KSH prompt? I've tried back-slashing, quoting, and temporary variables. It doesn't seem to matter what I do, it expands it to the current command number. I like to have my prompt hi-lighted so I embed a "`tputs smso`...`tputs rmso`" in my PS1 but one of my terminals has a "!" in the necessary escape sequence. This has very undesirable results. It's conceivable that different versions could differ in this respect since my ksh does not handle the PS1='$(date)' type of thing. Any ideas??? Paul Chamberlain | I do NOT represent IBM tif@doorstop, sc30661@ausvm6 512/838-7008 | ...!cs.utexas.edu!ibmaus!auschs!doorstop.austin.ibm.com!tif
jrw@mtune.ATT.COM (Jim Webb) (07/28/90)
In article <2940@awdprime.UUCP>, tif@doorstop.austin.ibm.com (Paul Chamberlain) writes: > Does anyone know the trick to getting an unexpanded "!" in a KSH prompt? !! does the trick. I thought it was obvious :-) -- Jim Webb "Out of Phase -- Get Help" att!mtune!jrw "I'm bored with this....Let's Dance!"
pbm@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Peter McLain) (07/30/90)
To get the single character '!' in your ksh prompt, use "!!".
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