2006. July 25. 18:29, Leinier C. Salfran: > El mar, 25-07-2006 a las 17:01 +0200, LeVA escribió: > > Hi! > > > > I want to make my shell's prompt colourful :) > > > > I'm using pdksh. There are tons of information provided by google, > > but none of them are working. > > > > Setting my prompt to: > > PS1=$'\E[31m'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'\E[1;33m'`hostname -s`:$'\E[0m>' > > > > makes my prompt: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED];33mleva:$\E[0m> > > > > The colour codes gets ignored. Is this only working with the > > original korn shell? Is there colour support for the public domain > > korn shell? > > > Hi .. I never used this but I can say you that you are using 'text > strings' in that variable .. Everything you put enclosed in ' and " > is a 'text string' in c, perl, php, bash and others. > > PS1=$'\E[31m'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'\E[1;33m'`hostname -s`:$'\E[0m>' > > The result looks like this > > PS1=$'\E[31m'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'\E[1;33m'`hostname -s`:$'\E[0m>' > $ \E[31m [EMAIL PROTECTED] \E[1;33m leva :$ \E[0m> > > Do you see? > > Try to eliminate ' and try .. Maybe it works. The colourless version of the prompt is working with '' enclosing, and it is supposed to work (not just by accident :). The problem lays behind the colour code handling. My prompt looks like this now: PS1='@`hostname -s`:$USER($PWD) $ '
This is working, so I started from there. I've added the colour codes, but pdksh doesn't handle them. C'mon, I can't beleive that nobody is using the korn shell :) Daniel -- LeVA
