Quoting Chris Bannister (cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz):
> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 09:49:12PM -0500, David Wright wrote (and corrected
> himself):
> > This conversation made me revisit my own prompt which I have now
> > modified. I thought I'd share it with you in case any part of it
> > should be h
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 09:49:12PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Thomas H. George (li...@tomgeorge.info):
> > >
> > Your explanation is very helpful, converts the jumble I copied from a
> > website into a logical sequence of instructions. I really appreciate
> > being able to understand the
Quoting David Wright (deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk):
> export PROMPT_COMMAND+=" || echo -ne '\e]0;${HOSTNAME^^}
> $(tty) ${HOSTNAME^^}\a'"
Forgive the typo; that || was in the penultimate version that I
accidentally included. It should of course be ; otherwise the
title only
Quoting Thomas H. George (li...@tomgeorge.info):
> >
> Your explanation is very helpful, converts the jumble I copied from a
> website into a logical sequence of instructions. I really appreciate
> being able to understand the meaning of the prompt.
This conversation made me revisit my own prompt
On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 12:31:15PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Thomas H. George (li...@tomgeorge.info):
> > On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 06:54:40AM +, Bonno Bloksma wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > > I entered the following in .bashrc
> > > >
> > > >PS1='\033[01;33m\h:\w\$ \033[00m'
Quoting Thomas H. George (li...@tomgeorge.info):
> On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 06:54:40AM +, Bonno Bloksma wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > > I entered the following in .bashrc
> > >
> > >PS1='\033[01;33m\h:\w\$ \033[00m'
> > >
> > > to colorize the prompt (very handy to find the prompt when a
On 5/4/2015 7:57 AM, Thomas H. George wrote:
On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 06:54:40AM +, Bonno Bloksma wrote:
Hi,
I entered the following in .bashrc
PS1='\033[01;33m\h:\w\$ \033[00m'
to colorize the prompt (very handy to find the prompt when a command
fills the console screen with lines of
On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 06:54:40AM +, Bonno Bloksma wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I entered the following in .bashrc
> >
> >PS1='\033[01;33m\h:\w\$ \033[00m'
> >
> > to colorize the prompt (very handy to find the prompt when a command
> > fills the console screen with lines of text)
> >
> >
On Mon, 4 May 2015 00:02:11 -0600
Bob Proulx wrote:
> Petter Adsen wrote:
> > Brad Rogers wrote:
> > > PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\
> > > [\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '
> >
> > Excuse me if this is a dumb question, but what does the
> > "debian_chro
Hi,
> I entered the following in .bashrc
>
>PS1='\033[01;33m\h:\w\$ \033[00m'
>
> to colorize the prompt (very handy to find the prompt when a command
> fills the console screen with lines of text)
>
> The only problem occurs when the next entry is more than one line. In that
> case
Petter Adsen wrote:
> Brad Rogers wrote:
> > PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\
> > [\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '
>
> Excuse me if this is a dumb question, but what does the "debian_chroot"
> part (twice) do?
Basic shell substitution. The task there is
On Sat, May 02, 2015 at 11:08:20AM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote:
...
> > PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\
> > [\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '
...
> Excuse me if this is a dumb question, but what does the "debian_chroot"
> part (twice) do?
If the debian_chroot
On 2015-05-02, Petter Adsen wrote:
>
> Excuse me if this is a dumb question, but what does the "debian_chroot"
> part (twice) do?
>
It "prompts" (hee hee) you to use a search engine:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/372849/what-does-debian-chrootdebian-chroot-do-in-my-terminal-prompt
--
To UNSU
On Sat, 2 May 2015 11:08:20 +0200
Petter Adsen wrote:
Hello Petter,
>Excuse me if this is a dumb question, but what does the "debian_chroot"
>part (twice) do?
No idea. As I said, I lifted the command (i.e. I didn't write it)
straight from .bashrc. It does what Thomas wants, but I don't
know /
On Fri, 1 May 2015 16:31:16 +0100
Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Fri, 1 May 2015 11:07:46 -0400
> "Thomas H. George" wrote:
>
> Hello Thomas,
>
> >I entered the following in .bashrc
> >
> > PS1='\033[01;33m\h:\w\$ \033[00m'
> >
> >to colorize the prompt (very handy to find the prompt when a
I do like to use a colorized promt to show my running jobs and whether my
AWS creds are in the environment, but I usually use the built in PS2 rather
than create insanely long lines. It took a while to develop that habit,
though, but it works better. You can of course break lines arbitrarily with
a
On 05/01/2015 12:07 PM, Thomas H. George wrote:
> I entered the following in .bashrc
>
>PS1='\033[01;33m\h:\w\$ \033[00m'
>
> to colorize the prompt (very handy to find the prompt when a command
> fills the console screen with lines of text)
>
> The only problem occurs when the next entr
On Fri, 1 May 2015 11:07:46 -0400
"Thomas H. George" wrote:
Hello Thomas,
>I entered the following in .bashrc
>
> PS1='\033[01;33m\h:\w\$ \033[00m'
>
>to colorize the prompt (very handy to find the prompt when a command
>fills the console screen with lines of text)
Lifted from my .bash
I entered the following in .bashrc
PS1='\033[01;33m\h:\w\$ \033[00m'
to colorize the prompt (very handy to find the prompt when a command
fills the console screen with lines of text)
The only problem occurs when the next entry is more than one line. In
that case the entry wraps around
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