Variable: tramp-shell-prompt-pattern

tramp-shell-prompt-pattern is a customizable variable defined in tramp.el.gz.

Value

"\\(?:^\\|
\\)[^]\n#-%>]*#?[]#-%>][[:blank:]]*"

Documentation

Regexp to match prompts from remote shell.

Normally, Tramp expects you to configure shell-prompt-pattern correctly, but sometimes it happens that you are connecting to a remote host which sends a different kind of shell prompt. Therefore, Tramp recognizes things matched by shell-prompt-pattern as prompt, and also things matched by this variable. The default value of this variable is similar to the default value of shell-prompt-pattern, which should work well in many cases.

This regexp must match both tramp-initial-end-of-output and tramp-end-of-output.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/net/tramp.el.gz
(defcustom tramp-shell-prompt-pattern
  ;; Allow a prompt to start right after a ^M since it indeed would be
  ;; displayed at the beginning of the line (and Zsh uses it).
  ;; Allow also [] style prompts.  They can appear only during
  ;; connection initialization; Tramp redefines the prompt afterwards.
  (rx (| bol "\r")
      (* (not (any "\n#$%>]")))
      (? "#") (any "#$%>]") (* blank))
  "Regexp to match prompts from remote shell.
Normally, Tramp expects you to configure `shell-prompt-pattern'
correctly, but sometimes it happens that you are connecting to a
remote host which sends a different kind of shell prompt.  Therefore,
Tramp recognizes things matched by `shell-prompt-pattern' as prompt,
and also things matched by this variable.  The default value of this
variable is similar to the default value of `shell-prompt-pattern',
which should work well in many cases.

This regexp must match both `tramp-initial-end-of-output' and
`tramp-end-of-output'."
  :type 'regexp)