From: "Preben Guldberg" <c928400@student.dtu.dk>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: prompt quoting question
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 09:50:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010827095025.A7989@student.dtu.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010827004932.A11967@panix.com>; from "Russell Hoover" on [010827] at 00:49:32
Thus wrote Russell Hoover (rj@panix.com) den [010827]:
> But when I replace "tty" in the line above with `/usr/bin/tty | sed -e 's/\/dev\/tty//'`
> instead of displaying the tty number, the prompt is messed up:
> \e[1;32mMonday 2001/08/27 00:14:45 \e[mv
> and sed gives me an error message:
> sed: 1: "s//dev/tty//": bad flag in substitute command: 't'
> It seems to me the problem is in correctly quoting the 's/\/dev\/tty//' : the
> single quotes (within backtics within single quotes) won't cut it. Any clues
> appreciated.
As for the quoting of the sed command, you could go for, say
/usr/bin/tty | sed -e s_/dev/tty__
Peppe
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2001-08-27 4:49 Russell Hoover
2001-08-27 7:50 ` Preben Guldberg [this message]
2001-08-27 8:06 ` Bart Schaefer
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