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Re: prompt quoting question

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From: "Preben Guldberg" <c928400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: prompt quoting question
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 09:50:25 +0200
In-reply-to: <20010827004932.A11967@xxxxxxxxx>; from "Russell Hoover" on [010827] at 00:49:32
Mail-followup-to: Preben Peppe Guldberg <c928400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx
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Reply-to: Preben Peppe Guldberg <c928400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thus wrote Russell Hoover (rj@xxxxxxxxx) 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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References:
- prompt quoting question
  - From: Russell Hoover

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