Summary: PS1 problem

From: Kevin Butters <kbutters2001_at_yahoo.com> Date: Tue Dec 18 2001 - 14:46:09 EST · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Wed Mar 23 2016 - 16:32:37 EDT

Kudo's to Paul and Dylan.

Both responded with more amiable usage of the PS1
varible.

From
PS1="\[\033[1;31m\]*** \[\033[1;32m\]\h\[\033[1;31m\]
*** \[\033[1;35m\]\w\n\[\033[0m\]\[\033[1;
33m\]\u >\[\033[0m\]"

Came
PS1="*** \h *** \w \n \u >"

Thanks,
Kevin

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