yeah - the issue on my system was that I was not using the start-of and end-of color characters properly - for example:
===== ORIGINAL PS1 STRING ===== export PS1="[\e[1;36m\w @ \h\e[m] \n[\e[1;35m\t \u\e[m] > " ===== NEW PS1 STRING ===== export PS1="[\[\033[1;36m\]\w @ \h\[\033[0m]\n\][\[\033[1;35m\t \u\]\[\033[0m\]] > " Note that I removed the "\033" entries and also added the "[\e[" & "[\e[m" control characters. Once I made these slight changes, it solved the issue... -- *********************************************************** * | * * | Tony Leding * * | | | Software Engineer, Cisco Systems * * :|: :|: | CMTS-BU / Cable System Test * * :|||: :|||: | Office: 408-525-2995 * * .:|||||:...:|||||:. | Mobile: 925-708-9757 * * | E-mail: tled...@cisco.com * * Cisco Systems | * *********************************************************** Chet Ramey wrote: >> This ever get solved? I had the same issue in bash v3.2x and the root cause >> was the formatting. > > If it's the one I'm thinking of, nobody was ever able to reproduce it. > > Chet >
