Re: shell prompt

[Chet Ramey]

Put newlines into your message the next time.

> I am going through the bash source code.I would like to know where
> exactly is the shell prompt being printed on the console for the very
> first time.I went through the "main" routine of shell.c file,but could
> not find it. 

If you're interactive and using readline to read input, readline prints
the prompt.  It's passed as an argument to readline().  Look for the
call to readline in parse.y:yy_readline_get().


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