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Re: bash hostname \h in all caps
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Mon Aug 1 20:25:05 2011
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 20:24:56 -0400
To: Ken T Takusagawa <kenta@mit.edu>
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This is not necessarily a bug. The stock installer canonicalizes hostnames and uppercases them.
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On Aug 1, 2011, at 7:16 PM, Ken T Takusagawa <kenta@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> On SIPB's Natty machine (w-a-thornhump-iii), I have "\h" in
> my bash PS1 prompt. This gets rendered in ALL-CAPS, which
> is a change in behavior from other machines.
>
> --ken
>
> --
> Sent from a Dell 1950 8 CPU 32 GB RAM
