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Do not use redirection characters in your shell prompt

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217 points tanelpoder | 1 comments | 17 Mar 21 14:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
1. stonesweep ◴[17 Mar 21 15:56 UTC] No.26492933[source]▶
Fun trivia: this is the default character in the SUSE /etc/bash.bashrc prompt for the non-root user. There's a lot of code doing things, but it boils down to this one example of their prompt defaults:

    if test "$UID" = 0 ; then
        PS1="${HOST}:${PWD} # "
    else
        PS1="${USER}@${HOST}:${PWD}> "
    fi
A popular distro is shipping this out of the box.