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

Cág ca6c at bitmessage.ch
Wed Aug 8 04:09:51 AEST 2018


Brian Zick wrote:

> In NetBSD 7 the default is ';', but I don't see any reference to a
> default $prompt in the manual on that system.

It's not. '$' is default for sh and ksh, and '%' for csh. I think
it maybe has never been ';'.

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caóc




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