From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 8 0:27: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (oe70.law11.hotmail.com [64.4.16.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5092437B405 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 00:26:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 00:26:58 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [24.116.152.150] From: "Sivar" To: "Cliff Sarginson" , References: <20011008070553.A1267@raggedclown.net> Subject: Re: Color BASH prompt question Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 01:36:55 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Oct 2001 07:26:58.0121 (UTC) FILETIME=[9D204390:01C14FCA] 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cliff Sarginson" To: "Charles Burns" Cc: Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2001 11:05 PM Subject: Re: Color BASH prompt question > 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 .. :) Pheew. I didn't realize that one could write a 12 chapter + appendix document about BASH prompts. Many thanks on this one, it was just what I needed! (And then some) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message