Torsten Vollmann wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Two issues with extra-prompt.sh which popped up during my work on the
> alfs-profile for blfs-6.1, see:
>
> http://archives.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/alfs-discuss/2005-September/007000.html
>
>
> First the minor one: If my understandig of extra-prompt
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> No, it *supplements* PS1. As the book says:
> "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."
>
> It is meant as an example. We expect users to use it or n
Hi.
I commentet out the export line in the script but still PROMPT_COMMAND is
set and used... Only commenting out the PROMPT_COMMAND line helps
Could it be the export isn't needed at all? Sadly I'm not so deep into bash
programming but always thought things not exported don't make it beyond the
s
Moving to dev.
Ag. D. Hatzimanikas wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, at 09:07 Craig Jackson wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> In BLFS-6.2, Chapter 3 - The Bash Startup Files, the
>> /etc/profile.d/extra-prompt.sh provides interesting results. I must
>> have had this problem a dozen times now, and since it is a
David Jensen wrote:
> Moving to dev.
> Ag. D. Hatzimanikas wrote:
>> Does this prompt (in /etc/profile) looks good to you? (it was suggested by
>> David Jensen)
>>
>> if [[ ${EUID} == 0 ]] ; then
>> PS1='\[\e[1;31m\]\u [ \[\e[00m\]\w \[\e[1;31m\]]\$ \[\e[00m\]'
>> else
>> PS1='
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> David Jensen wrote:
>
>> Moving to dev.
>>
>
>
>> Ag. D. Hatzimanikas wrote:
>>
>>> Does this prompt (in /etc/profile) looks good to you? (it was suggested by
>>> David Jensen)
>>>
>>> if [[ ${EUID} == 0 ]] ; then
>>> PS1='\[\e[1;31m\]\u [ \[\e[00m\]\w \[\
taipan67 wrote:
if [[ ${EUID} == 0 ]] ; then
PS1='\[\e[1;31m\]\u [ \[\e[00m\]\w \[\e[1;31m\]]\$ \[\e[00m\]'
else
PS1='\[\e[1;32m\]\u [ \[\e[00m\]\w \[\e[1;32m\]]\$ \[\e[00m\]'
fi
>> This is too cryptic. Use:
>>
>> NORMAL="\[\033[0;39
taipan67 wrote:
> Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> David Jensen wrote:
>>
>>> Moving to dev.
>>>
>>
>>> Ag. D. Hatzimanikas wrote:
>>>
Does this prompt (in /etc/profile) looks good to you? (it was suggested by
David Jensen)
if [[ ${EUID} == 0 ]] ; then
PS1='\[\e[1
David Jensen wrote:
> taipan67 wrote:
> if [[ ${EUID} == 0 ]] ; then
> PS1='\[\e[1;31m\]\u [ \[\e[00m\]\w \[\e[1;31m\]]\$ \[\e[00m\]'
> else
> PS1='\[\e[1;32m\]\u [ \[\e[00m\]\w \[\e[1;32m\]]\$ \[\e[00m\]'
> fi
>
>
>>> This is too cryptic. Us
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 09:58 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> taipan67 wrote:
> > Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> >> David Jensen wrote:
> >>
> >> NORMAL="\[\033[0;39m\]"
> >> RED="\[\033[1;31m\]"
> >> GREEN="\[\033[1;32m\]"
> >>
> >> if [[ ${EUID} == 0 ]] ; then
> >> PS1="$RED\u [ $NORMAL\w$RED ]\$ $NORMAL"
> >
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
much snipped!
>> Reviewing this thread
>> http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-dev/2007-March/016818.html
>> it seems PS1 should not be exported, no decision was reached
>>
>
> It should not be exported because it does no good. PS1 is reset for
> each invocation. Fr
On Sun, Jul 29, at 01:56 David Jensen wrote:
>
> I suggest.
> 1).
> Lose /etc/extra-prompt.sh.
> 2).
> Lose export for PS1.
> 3).
> Use:
>
> NORMAL="\[\e[0m\]"
> RED="\[\e[1;31m\]"
> GREEN="\[\e[1;32m\]"
> if [[ ${EUID} == 0 ]] ; then
> PS1="$RED\u [ $NORMAL\w$RED ]# $NORMAL"
> else
Ag. D. Hatzimanikas wrote:
>
>
> Thanks a lot David,
>
> Attached is a diff with your suggestions.
>
> With this chance, I also updated the X.sh script (/X11R6/X11R7).
>
I was not aware we were making this change. It works for me, /usr/X11R7
is what I use. We should put it to discussion? Per
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