newline in PS1

Rich Felker dalias at aerifal.cx
Tue Aug 20 15:01:24 UTC 2013


On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 11:19:20PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Friday 16 August 2013 20:16, Bug Ficks wrote:
> > hi,
> > 
> > Sorry I contact you by email but I didn't want to setup an bugzilla account.
> > 
> > I had some problems with \n in PS1 with busybox shell. When navigating
> > history a newline will always be printed which is kinda annoying:)
> 
> Can you describe the situation in more details?

I think the reporter means try adding a newline to PS1 and pressing up
and down arrow keys a few times... :-)

Rich


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