On 9/16/16 9:25 PM, Ben wrote: > Hello, > > using bash-4.4, setting PS0 to '\[\033[1;36m\]started at > \t\[\033[0m\]\n' makes it output PS0 with a non-printable \x01\x02 > prefix and suffix.
Yes, those are the expansions of the \[ and \] escape sequences. Since $PS0 is not being passed to readline for display, you probably don't need to include those escape sequences at all. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/