Re: Colors

[Kent West <westk@nicanor.acu.edu>]

On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Remco van de Meent wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> 
>  : On Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 01:06:22PM +0200, Remco van de Meent wrote:
>  : > On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Luiken, Arijan wrote:
>  : > 
>  : >  : I wonder (my guess that this is more a bash/linux question) is it
>  : >  : possible to display colors (ansi) in your prompt and ifso HOW ????
>  : > 
>  : > Yup, just use the 'standard' escape sequences and put them in the PS1
>  : > environment variable.
>  : 
>  : "Standard"? Which? Bad idea IMHO.
> 
> I mean the ANSI escape sequences like ESC[33;1m etc.
> 
>  -Remco

In your .bash_profile or similar, enter a line like:
PS1=^V[[33;1m This is my prompt

To get the escape sequence, press Ctrl-V, Ctrl-left-bracket, then 
left-bracket and the correct number.

I saw a good article in the Linux Gazette dealing with this. I think it 
was one of the 2-cent Tips from this year's issues. (Just use a search 
engine to find Linux Gazette's web site, then browse the back issues.)


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