[ale] [HELP] Changed PS1 in /etc/bashrc and have a big

[Gary Maltzen]

Try "linux S" at the "boot:" prompt to see if single-user mode will bypass that.

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>Hi everyone.
>
>I did a bad thing.  I changed PS1 in /etc/bashrc and didn't have
>another shell running so that if I messed it up I could recover.
>
>The change I made resulted in the following error message filling the
>screen:
>
>bash: the.lair: ${PWD/} $: bad substitution
>bash: the.lair: ${PWD/} $: bad substitution
>bash: the.lair: ${PWD/} $: bad substitution
>bash: the.lair: ${PWD/} $: bad substitution
>bash: the.lair: ${PWD/} $: bad substitution
>bash: the.lair: ${PWD/} $: bad substitution
>bash: the.lair: ${PWD/} $: bad substitution
>bash: the.lair: ${PWD/} $: bad substitution
>
>As you can see, I screwed up.
>
>My question is:  How can I get in to fix it?
>Is there a way to bypass /etc/bashrc on login?  If I could do that, I
>could get in, edit bashrc, and voila!  It would be fixed.
>
>Any help is greatly appreciated,
>
>Rick