On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 at 2:23pm (-0000), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is it possible to generate ANSI sequences inside pdksh's PS1 prompt? A la
> bash?
>
> I can do things like
>
> print "\027\033[1;32m hello \027\033[0m"
>
> but I can't get PS1 to interpret properly - err, don't worry about string
> length, I'll cover that one step at a time!
>
Using your example... how about doing...
PS1=`print "\027\033[1;32m hello \027\033[0m"`
... and getting literal escapes in there.
M.
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