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From: Ariff Abdullah <skywizard@time.net.my>
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To: Wang Peihan <"peihanw@mx.cei.gov.cn"@mx.cei.gov.cn>
Subject: Re: xterm title bar and bash prompt
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 21:25:37 +0800
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On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Wang Peihan wrote:
> In my ~/.bashrc, there are sections like this
> 
> ### begin ###
> if [ $TERM = "xterm" -o $TERM = "xterm-color" -o $TERM = "vt100" ]; then
>     USER=`whoami`
>     export USER
>     HOST=`hostname`
>     export HOST
>     PS1='^[]2;${USER}@${HOST}:\w^G$ '
>     export PS1
> fi
> set -o vi
> ###  end  ###
> 
> So, the title bar of an xterm window looks like
> "student@study.bbs.edu.cn:~/prog/cc/work".
> 
> It is cool, but a weird thing happens. The line wrap of bash did not work
> properly any more. When typing a long command line, the input line is a
> mess.
> 
> Is there any way to correct this?
> 
> (My system is 4.1 stable, bash 2.04)
> 
> 
> 
> 
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bash 1/2 honour "PROMPT_COMMAND", which evaluated everytime the prompt appear
try this:-

PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${SHELL} - ${USER}@${HOST}:${PWD}\007"'
PS1="\u@\h \W\\$ "

export PROMPT_COMMAND PS1

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