On Wednesday, May 28, 2003 10:59 pm, Marc Aurele La France wrote: > On Wed, 28 May 2003, Bovy, Stephen J wrote: > > I am having great fun with xterm on IBM z/OS > > but I can't seem to get bash prompt title changing > > to work. > > > > Here is my prompt string: > > > > if "$TERM" == "cygwin" || "$TERM" == "xterm" || \ > > "$TERM" == "vt102" || "$TERM" == "vt100" ; then > > export PS1="\[\e]0;\h \@ [\W]\a\e[34;42m\][\w]\[\e[0m\]\n\$ " > > > > Do you have any suggestions, I don't know where to begin. > > Try apostrophes instead of quotes.
>From the bash man page: [When inside double quotes,] the backslash retains its special meaning only when followed by one of the following characters: $, `, ", \, or <newline>. Therefore, the only \ that disappears is the one preceding the $. This is only a problem when running as root (euid 0)--\$ should expand to #. (I assume you're using bash because you list "cygwin".) Hey, I didn't know vt100 and vt102 supported changing the window title... Are you sure that's really what you mean to do? -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
