On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Zach Gelnett wrote: > Here is what i am seeing: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> > > > the duplicate ">" is the issue. Here is my PS1: > > \[\033]61;[EMAIL PROTECTED]@\H \W> > > as you can see, only a single ">" > [snip]
You have a bug in your PS1 value. Bash uses \[ and \] to delimit non-printable sequences in the prompt. So, your PS1 should at least be \[\033]61;[EMAIL PROTECTED]@\H \W> ^^ Note the closing '\]'. Also, ESC] doesn't look like a valid ANSI escape sequence What exactly are you trying to accomplish with your prompt? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/