Interactive non-login shell and tilde expansion

[Steven Penny]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Steven Penny wrote
> However it doesnt make much sense because even with "bad" Cygwin.bat PS1 seems
> to be already defined

To answer my own question, PS1 is already defined, but not exported. This is
because the export happens in /etc/profile, which is called with the "--login"
option. Example

    $ ~/foo.sh
    /home/Steve0^G

    $ export PS1

    $ ~/foo.sh
    /home/Steven

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