[COFF] What is your prompt?

[Grant Taylor]

On 12/25/21 12:14 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> Sure.  Oh the compatibility of shells i meant, of course.  But that 
> mostly colours, now that ~/.profile ensures HOSTNAME and LOGNAME 
> per se.  No more \XY escapes here, except \e and the \[..\] that some 
> need (to get it column counting right, with colours) (SHTYPE=bash 
> and =yash).

Printing vs non-printing characters are important.

> You look for $0, sometimes deeper for some *_VERSION, for $OSTYPE 
> (which my ~/.profile sets, too).  But in the end it is all a mess.

Hum.  I've not thought about trying to tease that information out of 
environment variables.  Instead, I create my own environment variables 
and populate them from various $(uname ...) output.



-- 
Grant. . . .
unix || die

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