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Re: Prompt in Bash



On Fri, 22 Aug 1997 12:32:35 -0300 (EST), Daniel Doro Ferrante wrote:

>
>
>	Hi All !
>
>	Does anybody know how do I change colors in a bash prompt. I can
>do it in tcsh, but no succes with bash... (even after reading the man).


#b/w prompt
#PS1="\\h\\$ \\u [\\w] "

#Pretty color prompt. Comment it out if your terminal doesn't support ANSI co

#We must encase the ANSI codes in \[ and \] or else bash will have line lengt
#problems. \e is a pretty form of the raw escape sequence
PS1="\\[\\e[1;31m\\]\\h\\[\\e[0m\\]\\$ \\u [\\[\\e[1;34m\\]\\w\\[\\e[0m\\]] "

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