On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 09:48:32AM +0000, Jon Dowland wrote:
> This is a bit slow, mind, if you really want to change the
> text colour for the root user then you should "unwind" the
> control characters instead by preserving the older PS1 and
> keeping track of which control sequences you've "opened":
Working example of this:
~root/.bash_login
OLDPS1="$PS1"
PS1='\[\e[0;1;31m\]\$ '
~root/.bash_logout
echo -en '\e[0m'
PS1="$OLDPS1"
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