Re: PS1 in .bashrc

[Sebastian Kapfer <sebastian_kapfer@web.de>]

On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 19:30:10 +0200, Robin Gerard wrote:

> with this PS1 I get: 
> 
> [18:31 : 0.16]
> [user@machineName 1] ~$
> 
> but if I write a very long command the cursor remains on the same line and 
> overlaps the prompt.

>From "man bash":

> \[     begin  a sequence of non‐printing characters, which could
>        be used to embed a terminal  control  sequence  into  the
>        prompt
> \]     end a sequence of non‐printing characters

HTH

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