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I have been noticing something weird when typing in commands. This is what I get when I do an ls -la on an empty folder:

sh-3.2# ls -la  
total 0  
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   68 Apr  2 15:53 .  
drwxr-x---  16 root  wheel  544 Apr  2 15:53 ..  
-ne  
sh-3.2#

Why is there an -ne showing up after I type in a command? Any help would be appreciated.

This is what I get when I echo $PS1.

\s-
   \$
-ne

Gordon - This is what I get when I printf "'%q'\n" "$PS1"

'\\s-\\v\\\$\ '
-ne
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Better ask on ServerFault or SuperUser – melco-man Apr 2 '11 at 21:03
Show us the contents of your .bashrc and .bash_profile files (if they exist). – Kevin Reid Apr 3 '11 at 0:47
The don't exist – Tom Apr 3 '11 at 2:55
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the results you got from the echo were rather hard to parse. Please try printf "'%q'\n" "$PS1" and report the results. – Gordon Davisson Apr 3 '11 at 5:36
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It looks like something in your prompt variable (PS1) could be messed up. What's you prompt set to? 

# echo $PS1
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I added the response to the question. What do I need to to fix it? – Tom Apr 2 '11 at 23:20
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I think you need to look at the code that's running for PS1. Check your .bashrc for any line that sets PS1, and see if there is anything that looks like -ne. -ne is bash/ksh/sh/zsh code for 'not equal'. You may have something being set and you forgot the closing quote.

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The problem was is in .bash_profile. I was given some helper commands to make bash more friendly but these helpers where not designed for a Mac. I should have analyzed those helpers some more.

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