From: Steven Penny <svnpenn@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Interactive non-login shell and tilde expansion
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 00:01:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAXzdLU8SPeZHjMktCxSC-Uxj3LMKEnsHh6b9ZCnJGhfTUkbWQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAXzdLVnQuUsOy11LrrnkaX-BghPQBPO1Zyj0MNc1Z=B+SO14A@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Steven Penny wrote
> However it doesnt make much sense because even with "bad" Cygwin.bat PS1 seems
> to be already defined
To answer my own question, PS1 is already defined, but not exported. This is
because the export happens in /etc/profile, which is called with the "--login"
option. Example
$ ~/foo.sh
/home/Steve0^G
$ export PS1
$ ~/foo.sh
/home/Steven
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-15 0:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-14 3:54 Steven Penny
2014-01-14 6:26 ` Steven Penny
2014-01-14 16:54 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2014-01-14 23:01 ` Steven Penny
2014-01-14 23:50 ` Steven Penny
2014-01-15 0:01 ` Steven Penny [this message]
2014-01-15 0:15 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2014-01-15 0:22 ` Steven Penny
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