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by spondyl
1521 days ago
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I'm guilty of this, as I have my prompt set to a single > character. I'd be interested to know where the $ as a representation for user input suggestion originated from. I didn't know about # indicating that a command should be run as a superuser |
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In the absence of any configuration, the default prompt for most shells is (or was) simply $. When you su to root, it becomes #