[TUHS] Origins of shell prompt suffixes % $ > #
Kurt H Maier
khm at sciops.net
Tue Aug 7 17:31:36 AEST 2018
On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 09:53:33PM +0100, Brian Zick wrote:
>
> rc uses ;
Does it? 10th edition Unix and Plan 9 rc both have ('% ' ' ') as the
default value of $prompt. At least that's how it's described in the
manual. None of the v8/9/10 tarballs in the archive contain rc code,
but some contain manual source, and those describe % prompts.
I've seen other references to ; (presumably ('; ' ' ')) as the rc
prompt but I've never seen it in the wild. Does anyone here know what
the story is?
khm
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