Hi *, Am 2008-08-06 17:08:12, schrieb Chet Ramey: > > which seems harmless enough. However, if you do > > > > mkdir /tmp/chaos\\ ; cd /tmp/chaos\\ > > > > the prompt display hopelessly confuses bash. At first it displays > > nothing at all, then with repeated entries of RET fragments of color > > ANSI sequences appear, like > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/xxx$ mkdir /tmp/chaos\\ ; cd /tmp/chaos\\ > > ]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]: /tmp/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/chaos\$ > > ]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]: /tmp/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/chaos\$ > > Since bash doesn't output any of that by default, I suspect you have something > in PROMPT_COMMAND that tries to write to an xterm title bar and is confused by > the escape at the end of the prompt string.
I tested it with
export PS1='[\h:\w\] '
and
export PS1='\[ESC[1;[EMAIL PROTECTED]:ESC[36m\wESC[33m]ESC[0m '
abd both I get:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] cd /tmp
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] mkdir /tmp/chaos\\ ; cd /tmp/chaos\\
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/chaos\]
It seems to be an non-escaped coloring sequence
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
Michelle Konzack
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