On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Brian D Chase wrote:

> It would likely be wise to include logic
> to determine '$ ' vs '# ' prompts in case a normal user with /bin/sh
> decides to not have a $HOME/.profile

You don't need to do that in the profile; the shell does # for root
and $ for non-root automatically.

cjs
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