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From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@very.loosely.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: bash scrip prompt after bootstrap
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 11:40:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180402184005.sksraqtz7kdslapm@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180402171805.GB26074@blackeye.localdomain>

On 2018-04-02 19:18, Bas Zoutendijk wrote:

> That is exactly what I meant to do, and I admit it is rather kludgey.
> Because of the single quotes, which are around everything but $HOST,
> the double quotes are literally echoed.  The child shell will
> therefore see the PS1 definition surrounded by double quotes.  The
> echo part should be equivalent to this, which may be clearer:
> 
>     echo "export PS1=\"(chroot $HOST) \$PS1\"; exec <dev/tty"
> 
> For the record, my original Goldberg device works for me.  /How/ it
> works is another question, on which we will hopefully reach consensus
> at some point.

I see.  Color me stumped; your solution should work.

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-02 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-30 16:33 [gentoo-user] bash scrip prompt after bootstrap thelma
2018-03-30 17:10 ` Bas Zoutendijk
2018-03-30 18:20   ` thelma
2018-04-02  2:54   ` thelma
2018-04-02  8:00     ` Bas Zoutendijk
2018-04-02  8:25     ` David Haller
2018-04-02  9:29       ` Bas Zoutendijk
2018-04-02 15:14         ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2018-04-02 15:55           ` Bas Zoutendijk
2018-04-02 16:25             ` Ian Zimmerman
2018-04-02 17:18               ` Bas Zoutendijk
2018-04-02 18:40                 ` Ian Zimmerman [this message]
2018-04-02 16:50         ` [gentoo-user] " thelma
2018-04-02 18:36     ` Tom H
2018-04-02 20:40       ` Bas Zoutendijk

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