Thank you very much for that. Now I know what is going on -- the
search terms I was using before were not turning up anything useful.
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 13:02, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> Jimmy Wu:
>>
>> $ PS1='\W '
>> ~ cd /home
>> hmee cd /media
>> meiia cd /boot
>
> Same here, on squeeze and
Jochen Schulz wrote:
Jimmy Wu:
$ PS1='\W '
~ cd /home
hmee cd /media
meiia cd /boot
Mine doesn't use \W but it works well for me.
I don't have the problem with this testing:
# export PS1='\W '
~ cd /proc
proc cd /etc
etc cd
~ cd /home
home cd /var
var cd /media
media
I like having a w
Jimmy Wu:
>
> $ PS1='\W '
> ~ cd /home
> hmee cd /media
> meiia cd /boot
Same here, on squeeze and sid (both amd64, just as yours). It's already
reported as #589084. A link to a patch is included, in case you want to
rebuild bash yourself.
J.
--
I worry about people thinking I have lost directio
On 2007-04-15, Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I encountered the same problem and I solved it adding \]\n[\ in my PS1.
>
> my PS1:
>
> PS1="${magenta}[\[$TIME\] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> \[${BLUE}\]\#\[$NC\]]\w\$ "
>
> hth.
That's interesting. If I put the \n at the end of my prompt it works
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 09:15:52PM +, Tyler Smith wrote:
From: Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: bash prompt won't wrap properly
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Timothy and Paul:
Thanks so very much for this thread. There is so much to learn and so
little time; it's always a pleasure to find little gems like this as
they float by on the list.
My terms now have hostname-empowered titlebars :)
Cheers,
Mike Pfleger
There's seventy brilliant people on ear
Lovely. Thanks.
T.
W. Paul Mills wrote:
From man bash:
\[ begin a sequence of non-printing characters,
which could be used to embed a terminal con
trol sequence into the prompt
\] end a sequence of non-printing cha
>From man bash:
\[ begin a sequence of non-printing characters,
which could be used to embed a terminal con
trol sequence into the prompt
\] end a sequence of non-printing characters
So, try this:
\[\
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 06:33:09PM -0400, Timothy H. Keitt wrote:
| Quick question: the following bash prompt puts the current machine name
| in the xterm (gnome-terminal) title bar, but also causes long lines to
| wrap incorrectly. Instead of moving down a line, the wrap over-writes
| the exis
>From: Travis Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Bash Prompt in an XTerm
[snip]
>This works fine when I am at the console as a normal user but as root I only
>get:
>
>atheist#
Check root's .bash_profile (and possibly .bashrc). It is probably
overriding the defaul
m for Applixware. My email and ppp
server
is Debian. The configuration tools that come with Debian are easier since
I
don't have X-windows running
--
> From: Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: RedHat vs Debian (was Re: Bash Pr
>
> > Redhat is *far* easier to install on a slow machine. After installation
> > is another matter :)
> Slightly faster; not necessarily easier. Since 4.0, Red Hat has been a
> disaster for anyone with a CD-ROM attached to a SoundBlaster card, for
> instance.
this was a future domain. But o
On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote:
> Redhat is *far* easier to install on a slow machine. After installation
> is another matter :)
Slightly faster; not necessarily easier. Since 4.0, Red Hat has been a
disaster for anyone with a CD-ROM attached to a SoundBlaster card, for
instance.
>
>
> My question to you is how do you find them (which one do you think is
> best; if there is such a thing as 'best'). Any particular features etc
> you prefer on one over the other?
Redhat is *far* easier to install on a slow machine. After installation
is another matter :)
Redhat's installat
Hiya Travis,
> I just switched from Red Hat 4.2 to Debian 1.3.1 and I am now realizing how
> much
> Red Hat really hides you from things.
I was trying to decide what distribution to install (RedHat versus Debian)
just b4 I shifted to Linux. I must say in the beginning I was very much
inclined a
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Im replying to my own post.
I figured it out. Just add the PS1 line to my .bashrc.
I figure stuff like that would just go in the .bash_profile and when that
didn't work I had no idea what to do. To make it all global I will just make a
/etc/bashrc
Sorry for th
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