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

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Thu Aug 9 01:20:18 AEST 2018


    > From: Nemo

    > I will, no doubt, be flayed on this list but I tend to use "=>".

Hey, if it works for you, go for it.

After the Nth time I got confused as to exactly which machine I was
typing to, I hacked the shell on my V6 Unix to read its prompt from
".profile". (Very clean, only one added line of code in the existing
code.)

	Noel



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