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Fwd: Bash escape character troubles


From: Troy Curtis Jr
Subject: Fwd: Bash escape character troubles
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:43:10 -0500

I see that I need to do the reply all bit on this mailing list
too....I can never get used to that!  Here's my response to
"doonothing"

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Troy Curtis Jr <address@hidden>
Date: Jul 15, 2007 10:41 PM
Subject: Re: Bash escape character troubles
To: donothing successfully <address@hidden>


On 7/15/07, donothing successfully <address@hidden> wrote:
Hi Jean/Troy

Why do both use PROMPT_COMMAND to output your prompts?
I thought it was more conventional to set PS1, there are
escape characters to expand to hostname, date, etc etc.
I think this might be more efficient, and make things more
simple for you.

Here's my PS1 for an example:
harry2~/Mail>echo "$PS1"
\[\033[1;31m\]\u\[\033[0;32m\]\l\[\033[1;34m\]\w>\[\033[0m\]

You can embed commands too.

Have you read this?
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/index.html
I recall finding that very useful in constructing my prompt.

Also I set hardstatus in .screenrc to set the window title.

HTH,
Harry.


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Hmm, perhaps that would get me something.  I can't speak to Jean's
reasoning but mine as so that I could execute commands to optionally
output the hostname.  The way I have it set up is that it will not put
the hostname in the title on my main machine but if I have a login to
my other machinces, the hostname shows up in the "tab" title.  It
gives it that little bit extra information.  However, just a directory
name would be better than what I have now, which is "Thanks for flying
VIM" (I set up vim to put the filename in the title, very nice, but
without a working BASH escape sequence to over write it it sticks
around forever!)
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