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Re: Colorized Prompts Problem



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.

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