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Article #49Re: Nasty shell bug
From: utzoodecvaxharponpoivalicerabbit...
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1982 19:57
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1982 19:57
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I do not know what the situation is for csh, but what you describe is in fact the proper operation of the Bourne Shell. Suppose you type the following string at your terminal: "echo a b c " (note the trailing space). The echo command gets three arguments: "a", "b", and "c", with no trailing white space. Thus, if you say "echo $PS1" and PS1 contains "$ ", it is as if you had said "echo $ ": the echo command gets a $ as its argument with no trailing space. The way to do it is to say: echo "$PS1" I have tried this and the output does indeed have the trailing space.
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From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!rabbit!ark Newsgroups: net.bugs Title: Re: Nasty shell bug Article-I.D.: rabbit.831 Posted: Fri Oct 22 19:57:04 1982 Received: Sat Oct 23 02:51:04 1982 References: cca.3228 Subject: Re: Nasty shell bug Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1982 19:57:04 +0000 Message-ID: <bnews.rabbit.831>