how PS1 variable is used ?

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 16:23 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 21:59 +0100, Nils Kassube wrote:
> > MR ZenWiz wrote:
> > > It is used exactly in accordance with the specifications in the shell
> > > man page, which is the first place one should look for such
> > > information.
> > > 
> > > (IOW, RTFM)
> > 
> > ~/ > man shell
> > No manual entry for shell
> > 
> > If you suggest to RTFM, please make sure you point to an existing 
> > manual.
> 
> How about: man bash  

It is a little confusing that traditionally the shell was always called
'sh' and the commonly used shell on Linux is 'bash' and they are all
called 'shells'.  'sh' is of course really 'dash' on Ubuntu. This all
makes sense when you realize you can run different shells depending on
the functionality you need or prefer, but it is a bit confusing to a
newbie.

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