From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 7 22:59:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0743237B406 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 22:59:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=buffy.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15qTRX-000IpQ-00; Mon, 08 Oct 2001 05:59:11 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mailhost, from userid 500) id 979E5104E; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 07:05:53 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 07:05:53 +0200 From: Cliff Sarginson To: Charles Burns Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Color BASH prompt question Message-ID: <20011008070553.A1267@raggedclown.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.16i In-Reply-To: ; from burnscharlesn@hotmail.com on Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 06:48:28PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 06:48:28PM -0700, Charles Burns wrote: > When using ANSI color codes to color the BASh prompt ("^[[1;37m", for > example), BASh seems to think that the codes are actual displayed characters Go to the linuxdoc site and find the HOWTO's. There is one called "The bash prompt howto" written by someone who had a lot of time on their hands I guess .. :) -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message