Quoting Chris Bannister (cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz):
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 09:49:12PM -0500, David Wright wrote (and corrected
himself):
This conversation made me revisit my own prompt which I have now
modified. I thought I'd share it with you in case any part of it
should be helpful.
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 09:49:12PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
Quoting Thomas H. George (li...@tomgeorge.info):
Your explanation is very helpful, converts the jumble I copied from a
website into a logical sequence of instructions. I really appreciate
being able to understand the meaning
Quoting Thomas H. George (li...@tomgeorge.info):
Your explanation is very helpful, converts the jumble I copied from a
website into a logical sequence of instructions. I really appreciate
being able to understand the meaning of the prompt.
This conversation made me revisit my own prompt
Quoting David Wright (deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk):
export PROMPT_COMMAND+= || echo -ne '\e]0;${HOSTNAME^^}
$(tty) ${HOSTNAME^^}\a'
Forgive the typo; that || was in the penultimate version that I
accidentally included. It should of course be ; otherwise the
title only
On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 12:31:15PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
Quoting Thomas H. George (li...@tomgeorge.info):
On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 06:54:40AM +, Bonno Bloksma wrote:
Hi,
I entered the following in .bashrc
PS1='\033[01;33m\h:\w\$ \033[00m'
to
Petter Adsen wrote:
Brad Rogers wrote:
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\
[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '
Excuse me if this is a dumb question, but what does the debian_chroot
part (twice) do?
Basic shell substitution. The task there is to
Hi,
I entered the following in .bashrc
PS1='\033[01;33m\h:\w\$ \033[00m'
to colorize the prompt (very handy to find the prompt when a command
fills the console screen with lines of text)
The only problem occurs when the next entry is more than one line. In that
case the
On Mon, 4 May 2015 00:02:11 -0600
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote:
Petter Adsen wrote:
Brad Rogers wrote:
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\
[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '
Excuse me if this is a dumb question, but what does the
On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 06:54:40AM +, Bonno Bloksma wrote:
Hi,
I entered the following in .bashrc
PS1='\033[01;33m\h:\w\$ \033[00m'
to colorize the prompt (very handy to find the prompt when a command
fills the console screen with lines of text)
The only problem
On 5/4/2015 7:57 AM, Thomas H. George wrote:
On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 06:54:40AM +, Bonno Bloksma wrote:
Hi,
I entered the following in .bashrc
PS1='\033[01;33m\h:\w\$ \033[00m'
to colorize the prompt (very handy to find the prompt when a command
fills the console screen with lines
Quoting Thomas H. George (li...@tomgeorge.info):
On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 06:54:40AM +, Bonno Bloksma wrote:
Hi,
I entered the following in .bashrc
PS1='\033[01;33m\h:\w\$ \033[00m'
to colorize the prompt (very handy to find the prompt when a command
fills
On 2015-05-02, Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote:
Excuse me if this is a dumb question, but what does the debian_chroot
part (twice) do?
It prompts (hee hee) you to use a search engine:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/372849/what-does-debian-chrootdebian-chroot-do-in-my-terminal-prompt
--
On Sat, May 02, 2015 at 11:08:20AM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote:
...
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\
[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '
...
Excuse me if this is a dumb question, but what does the debian_chroot
part (twice) do?
If the debian_chroot
On Fri, 1 May 2015 16:31:16 +0100
Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk wrote:
On Fri, 1 May 2015 11:07:46 -0400
Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote:
Hello Thomas,
I entered the following in .bashrc
PS1='\033[01;33m\h:\w\$ \033[00m'
to colorize the prompt (very handy to
On Sat, 2 May 2015 11:08:20 +0200
Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote:
Hello Petter,
Excuse me if this is a dumb question, but what does the debian_chroot
part (twice) do?
No idea. As I said, I lifted the command (i.e. I didn't write it)
straight from .bashrc. It does what Thomas wants, but I
I entered the following in .bashrc
PS1='\033[01;33m\h:\w\$ \033[00m'
to colorize the prompt (very handy to find the prompt when a command
fills the console screen with lines of text)
The only problem occurs when the next entry is more than one line. In
that case the entry wraps
On Fri, 1 May 2015 11:07:46 -0400
Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote:
Hello Thomas,
I entered the following in .bashrc
PS1='\033[01;33m\h:\w\$ \033[00m'
to colorize the prompt (very handy to find the prompt when a command
fills the console screen with lines of text)
Lifted
On 05/01/2015 12:07 PM, Thomas H. George wrote:
I entered the following in .bashrc
PS1='\033[01;33m\h:\w\$ \033[00m'
to colorize the prompt (very handy to find the prompt when a command
fills the console screen with lines of text)
The only problem occurs when the next entry is
I do like to use a colorized promt to show my running jobs and whether my
AWS creds are in the environment, but I usually use the built in PS2 rather
than create insanely long lines. It took a while to develop that habit,
though, but it works better. You can of course break lines arbitrarily with
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