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Do not use redirection characters in your shell prompt

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217 points tanelpoder | 4 comments | 17 Mar 21 14:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.742s | source
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hebz0rl ◴[17 Mar 21 15:20 UTC] No.26492453[source]▶
I use » instead which has been working well for me (zsh + alacritty on archlinux)
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1. jeffbee ◴[17 Mar 21 15:44 UTC] No.26492768[source]▶
Is there any locale in which » is a shell metacharacter? Or is the set of shell metas fixed regardless of locale?
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2. stonesweep ◴[17 Mar 21 16:26 UTC] No.26493362[source]▶
It was defined by POSIX [1] - of course anyone can extend POSIX functionality (and does), however I'm personally unaware of a locale which would break this specific convention / definition as it would almost assuredly break a lot of scripts in the world.

[1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009604499/utilities/xc...

3. kaslai ◴[17 Mar 21 17:26 UTC] No.26494287[source]▶
It's a quoting character, so any environment that intends to use » semantically would probably not use it as a redirection character
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4. jeffbee ◴[17 Mar 21 17:29 UTC] No.26494326[source]▶
Right, I was wondering if locales can influence the set of thing that behave as if they were ascii "