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Re: Length of %? in prompt

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Ian Lynagh <igloo@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Length of %? in prompt
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:26:09 -0800 (PST)
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On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Ian Lynagh wrote:

> I don't understand this 0 case though - is it a bug?
>
> ian@majestica:~% export PS1="%10>-->0--------%<< "
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There are only a total of 9 characters there, so no truncation is needed.
You need one more hyphen after the zero to get 10 characters.

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