26 Dec
2021
26 Dec
'21
9:44 a.m.
On 12/25/21 12:14 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
Sure. Oh the compatibility of shells i meant, of
course. But that
mostly colours, now that ~/.profile ensures HOSTNAME and LOGNAME
per se. No more \XY escapes here, except \e and the \[..\] that some
need (to get it column counting right, with colours) (SHTYPE=bash
and =yash).
Printing vs non-printing characters are important.
You look for $0, sometimes deeper for some *_VERSION,
for $OSTYPE
(which my ~/.profile sets, too). But in the end it is all a mess.
Hum. I've not thought about trying to tease that information out of
environment variables. Instead, I create my own environment variables
and populate them from various $(uname ...) output.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die