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Comment by werkshy | Hacker News Reader

Post says $PS1="\[\033[G\]$PS1"

But the first $ is wrong, it should read PS1="\[\033[G\]$PS1"

Even

    export PS1="\[\033[G\]$PS1"

I don't think exporting PS1 is a good idea. Child processes don't need it and if I launch a different shell with different PS1 semantics I get a broken prompt instead of whatever the default for that shell is.

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