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Re: If then Prompt

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
To: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: If then Prompt
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 14:39:12 +0100
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"Brian K. White" wrote:
> From: "Seth Kurtzberg" <seth@xxxxxxx>
> To: <zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 9:04 AM
> Subject: RE: If then Prompt
> 
> > [ -z "$MYTERM" ] && read -s -t 1 -p `echo -en "\005"` MYTERM    # bash 
> > only
> > if I could just get rid of those backticks...maybe binary edit the script,
> > never tried...
> >
> > use:
> > ...  $(echo -en "\005")  ...
> 
> It's not the backticks litterally, it's running a child process just to get 
> a certain character in a certain spot.

Sorry, I was dozing the first time this came round...

use $'\005' instead of the backtick expression.  This works in both bash
and zsh.

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