On Fri, 1 May 2015 16:31:16 +0100
Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 1 May 2015 11:07:46 -0400
> "Thomas H. George" <lists@tomgeorge.info> wrote:
>
> Hello Thomas,
>
> >I entered the following in .bashrc
> >
> > PS1='\033[01;33m\h:\w\$ \033[00m'
> >
> >to colorize the prompt (very handy to find the prompt when a command
> >fills the console screen with lines of text)
>
> Lifted from my .bashrc;
>
> PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\
> [\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '
>
> Should all be on one line of course. It shows path, and doesn't
> overwrite prompt on line wrap, and entered command strings can be
> edited without problem.
Excuse me if this is a dumb question, but what does the "debian_chroot"
part (twice) do?
Petter
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