[GRASS-user] Unable to modify PS1 variable

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 3:20 PM Patton, Eric (NRCan/RNCan)
<eric.patton at canada.ca> wrote:
>
> Hi, I am having trouble changing my PS1 bash prompt in Grass 7.7svn. I have
> PS1 set to “\W >” in ~/.grass.bashrc, but instead my prompt consistently prints
>
> “GRASS 7.7.svn ($LOCATION_NAME):\w > “  (with LOCATION_NAME and \W expanded to
> current Grass location and full directory path, respectively). The result is my prompt is eating
> almost the full width of my shell window.

Just to be sure: what is $SHELL set to? What is the output of:

echo $SHELL

  and

ls -la $(which $SHELL)

?


Markus