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

[Dave Horsfall]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2018, Michael Kjörling wrote:

> Hopefully other shells are more sane.

The MacBook here runs GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release 
(x86_64-apple-darwin16) and is equally busted, as is plain "sh" on both 
the Mac and FreeBSD (I can't be bothered checking the Penguin); I use ZSH 
on FreeBSD and it does The Right Thing (tm), as does ZSH on the Mac.

-- Dave