Re: [Moand] MSH Crashes when changing prompt

• From: "Marcel Ortiz [MSFT]" <mosoto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 17:53:20 -0800

Indeed.  This is a bug.  It appears that the shell is crashing if the prompt 
function returns null.
Here is another simple repro:

MSH>function prompt { return $null }

I've opened a bug for this.


In your case, the function is returning null because there isn't an 
environment variable called 'username:'.  You could use this instead:
function prompt { "${env:username}:" }

Thanks!

--
Marcel Ortiz [MSFT]
Monad: Microsoft Command Shell
Microsoft Corporation
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"Umesh Thakur" <UmeshThakur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:005E77B6-8ACF-4B0B-BDFC-E7F5A1759362@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi,
>
> When changing prompt using following function, it works:
>
> function prompt { "$env:username:" }
> OR
> function prompt { $env:username + ":"}
>
> prompt is changed to (if logged-on user name is "Umesh"):
> Umesh:
>
> However, if following functions is used, to do the same, MSH crashes:
>
> function prompt { $env:username: }
>
> following message is displayed:
> msh.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close.  We are sorry for 
> the
> inconvenience.
>
> A possible bug?
>
>
> -- 
> Umesh 


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