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Re: bash prompts question



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- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@valinux.com>
To: Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>
Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 3:20 PM
Subject: RE: bash prompts question


| 
| On 06-Sep-99 Hamish Moffatt wrote:
| > I'm (experimenting with) converting my interactive
| > environment from tcsh to bash. One thing I miss: tcsh supports
| > a %B token in the prompt to go bold, and it expands it to
| > something terminal-specific at run time. Any way to do this in
| > bash, besides something terminal-specific? (And what's a
| > terminal-specific way to do it anyway?)  
| > 
| 
| It takes terminal sequences to do this.  Don't know them however.

'ello...

Try here:

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO.html

linuxdoc.org has all the howtos and mini-howtos in various formats.
hope this helps.

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