On Mon, 1 Aug 2011, Ken Bloom wrote: > [bloom@zuni dtaa]$ echo $PS1 > [\u@\h \W]\$
This is a known bug with how the \W special character parses the directory string in certain versions of bash on certain OSes. Here's the bug (and fix) thread: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-02/msg00101.html _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech