On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 05:34:07PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >> Heya,
> >>
> >>
> >> since SUSE Linux 10.1, bash always reprints the prompt.
> >>
> >> This created very weird output that is hidden too...:
> >>
> >> 19:26 shanghai:/var/run/pam_mount > echo -en "abcdefghijklm" >jengelh
> >> 19:26 shanghai:/var/run/pam_mount > cat jengelh
> >> 19:26 shanghai:/var/run/pam_mount > /pam_mount >
> >>
> >> It looks like it does print $PS1 then '\r' and then $PS1 again. Is there a
> >> way to turn this off? Besides hiding non-'\n'-output (like from the test
> >> file), it also slows down remote shell access with high-latency links.
> >
> >Seems to be a problem with your prompt string, here it works:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Tests/beamer> echo -en "abcdefghijklm" >jengelh
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Tests/beamer> cat jengelh
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Tests/beamer>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Tests/beamer> echo "$PS1"
> > $(ppwd \l)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w>
> >
> >please note that every special character like terminal escape
> >characters should be enclosed by \[ \] within the prompt strings.
>
> export PS1="\[\e[1;30m\]\A \[\e[0;32m\]\h:\w > "
>
> has no problems but
>
> export PS1="\[\e[1;30m\]\A \[\e[0;32m\]\h:\w \[\e[1m\]> "
>
> I can't see the problem. Maybe you?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> PS1="\[\e[1;30m\]\A \[\e[0;32m\]\h:\w \[\e[1m\]> "
12:38 Fatou:~ >
12:38 Fatou:~ > echo -en "abcdefghijklm" >jengelh
12:38 Fatou:~ > cat jengelh
abcdefghijklm12:38 Fatou:~ >
I don have any one ... beside a green command line which I do
not like. Try this one
PS1="\\[$(tput bold;tput setaf 0)\\]\\A \\[$(tput sgr0;tput setaf 2)\\]\\h:\\w
>\\[$(tput sgr0)\\] "
should do the same buzt without green command line and it should fit to
the most terminals around even without color.
Werner
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