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lobocinza on April 14, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your pe...

Arch Linux. When using Zsh the last char is always a '%'. When using Bash it does no show a '%' but there's no line break. Possibly an weird interaction with my $PS1.

mkl on April 14, 2022 [–]

That's definitely a Zsh thing, showing that there was no newline: https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Options.html#Promptin.... It's not to do with PS1 or PROMPT, or head.

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