-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Paul Jarc on 9/21/2007 8:53 AM: > hirochiamaru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I saw it on a screen shot once, but this gentlemen was able to put the bash >> prompt at the bottom of his xterm window with out fill the top portion the >> xterm window first. > > yes '' | head -n "$LINES"
Or you could investigate the use of terminal escape sequences in your PS1. Remember to use \[ and \] to delimit escape sequences, since they are non-printing. For example, according to http://www.termsys.demon.co.uk/vtansi.htm, PS1='\[\e[20;5H\]> ' will output "> " at row 20 line 5, rather than the current position. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG892F84KuGfSFAYARAqvuAKC4bImnwytoOpbVRHWkbEMZAVs0cgCgzoMC wcM8AS+GTVHpL4HJfxHgLnM= =8BK6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
