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Re: Difficulties with PS1.



On 8 Feb 2024 14:17 +0700, from lbvf50.mobile@gmail.com (Dmitry):
> Why variable PS1 dose not change when set it before a command:
> Like this:
> A="a1" LANG="C.UTF-8" PS1="new" B="b2" bash --noprofile
> 
> $A, $B, $LANG -changed, $PS1 - not.
> 
> Works only when I explicitly set in current process.
> 
> export PS1="(chroot) $PS1"

Your syntax is correct (at least for bash; I don't know about other
shells), but it seems likely that $PS1 is being reset by bash's
reading of its initialization files.

Try with --norc as well. See bash(1) for details. Note that this will
likely also have other consequences.

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