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Re: Minor patch to /etc/profile
Hi Chris,
I'm anticipating to have several hours to do these (and other) changes in
the next week or so.
Regards,
John.
On Sat, May 1, 2010 4:25 am, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
> The PS1 definition for ksh in /etc/profile uses the literal ascii
> characters '^[' for the escape sequence as opposed to the single byte
> escape control code. The attached patch corrects that as well as
> HOSTNAME not being set correctly (at least for mksh).
>
> Finally, would it be appropriate to extend the 'ksh' case to catch
> both pdksh as well as mksh? Basically the case would be:
>
> *ksh* | -*ksh* | */*ksh* | \
> *ksh*.exe | -*ksh*.exe | */*ksh*.exe )
>
> Chris
>
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