Package: dash Version: 0.5.5.1-7.4 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/man/man1/dash.1.gz
LANG=C man dash shows:
PS1 The primary prompt string, which defaults to ``$ '', unless
you are the superuser, in which case it defaults to ``# ''.
PS2 The secondary prompt string, which defaults to ``> ''.
PS4 Output before each line when execution trace (set -x) is
enabled, defaults to ``+ ''.
Each of the documented default values has a graphic character and
two spaces between the quotation marks. However, the actual
default values have only one space, rather than two.
LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8 man dash shows the same spaces as LANG=C,
although the surrounding quotation marks are different.
The source code of the man page goes like this:
.It Ev PS1
The primary prompt string, which defaults to
.Dq $ \ ,
unless you are the superuser, in which case it defaults to
.Dq # \ .
Apparently, the Dq macro outputs a space between the first
parameter (the dollar sign) and the second parameter (a space).
I tried merging those parameters, like this:
.It Ev PS1
The primary prompt string, which defaults to
.Dq $\ ,
unless you are the superuser, in which case it defaults to
.Dq #\ .
and that fixed the bug for PS1. The manual page already uses
similar syntax in the documentation of set -x, so this change
should not cause portability problems.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
APT prefers oldstable
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages dash depends on:
ii debianutils 3.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dpkg 1.15.8.10 Debian package management system
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
dash recommends no packages.
dash suggests no packages.
Versions of manual-page viewers:
ii groff 1.20.1-10 GNU troff text-formatting system
ii groff-base 1.20.1-10 GNU troff text-formatting system (
ii man-db 2.5.7-8 on-line manual pager
ii x11-apps 7.5+5 X applications
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