Archaic wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 10:00:53PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >>The PROMPT_COMMAND is in the book. Look under "The Bash Shell Startup >>Files" in Chapter 3. If you want to expand the description, feel free. > > > What is being referred to is the conditional statement that wraps it. A > couple of people have reported that the book is broken in that it > applies the VAR to consoles as well.
What it says: "This script shows an example of a different way of setting the prompt. The normal variable, PS1, is supplemented by PROMPT_COMMAND. If set, the value of PROMPT_COMMAND is executed as a command prior to issuing each primary prompt. The sequence \e is an ESC character. \a is a BEL character. For a reference on xterm escape sequences, see http://rtfm.etla.org/xterm/ctlseq.html. cat > /etc/profile.d/extra-prompt.sh << "EOF" PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "[EMAIL PROTECTED] : ${PWD}\e[0m\a"' export PROMPT_COMMAND EOF The escape sequences above are BOLD, NORMAL, and BEL." It is meant to be an *example*, not blindly used. If you have a specific suggestion on how to change the wording or the example, let's discuss it more. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
