Re: Bash escape character troubles

[Jean Jordaan]

Hi donothing

> Why do both use PROMPT_COMMAND to output your prompts?

I use it to set the window title as described here:
 http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/screen/screen_51.html

It sets the title to my current directory so that in screen I have a
windowlist that looks like this:

[...]
18 address@hidden:~/projects/african-parliaments                                
$
19 address@hidden:~                                                             
$
20 address@hidden:~/repos/svk/bungeni-portal                                    
$
21 address@hidden:~/repos/svn/svn.plone.org/instancemanager-trunk               
$
22 address@hidden:~/repos/bzr/googlecode.com/bungeni-repo/bungeni-portal        
$
23 address@hidden:~/repos/bzr/code.launchpad.net                               
!$
24 address@hidden:~/repos/bzr                                                   
$
25 address@hidden:~/repos/bzr/code.launchpad.net/bzr-repo/bzr.0.17              
$
26 address@hidden:~/repos/bzr/code.launchpad.net/bzr-repo/bzr.dev               
$
27 address@hidden:~/repos/svk/ArchGenXML-trunk                                  
$
[...]

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jean                                              . .. .... //\\\oo///\\