Re: git-PS1 bash prompt setting

Sean [off-list ref] writes:

On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:38:02 +0100
Nicolas Vilz [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Just a note:

this doesn't work with bash 3.2. I think they altered the way of
trimming variables in this version.

on systems with bash 3.2 installed, i get
[master!linus-2.6/vm/vm]$ 
with the example above.

on systems with bash 3.1, it works properly.

Sorry bout that, I knew it was a bit fragile.  Was rather
comical reading Junio's recent message about all the things not
to do if you want portable shell code and noticing my 6 line script
did 90% of them ;o)

Maybe I should have been more explicit when I said "${paremeter##word}
and friends".  Might not have been obvious, but I only meant the
following four: %, %%, # and ##.

${parameter/pattern/string} and ${parameter//pattern/string} are
not even in POSIX.