Re: [TUHS] Origins of shell prompt suffixes % $ > #

7 Aug 2018

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  The Bourne shell (V7) had setable PS1 (start of
command) and PS2 (continuation prompts) 
When PS2 came on the scene, Bob Morris noticed that it most often appeared
because of a missing close quote. Therefore he set PS2="hit interrupt".

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Re: [TUHS] Origins of shell prompt suffixes % $ > #