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

[arnold at skeeve.com]

C??g <ca6c at bitmessage.ch> wrote:

> 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 ';'.
>
> --
> ca??c
>

Brian was referring to rc(1) in NetBSD.  I suspect it's Byron's rc
and I think the default there is ';'.

Arnold