Re: help with color and $PS1

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From: David. E. Goble
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 06:49

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On Fri, 1 Jun 2001 08:59:57 -0400, Guillaume
<guillaume.thouvenin@polymtl.ca> wrote:
>
>Did you tried :
>
>PS1="\n\[\033[1;35m\]IBM 686/pr120+ Linux RedHat 6.2
>\[\033[0;36m\]\$(date)\n\[\u@\h \W]\\$ \[\033[0m\]"
>
Hi G;

Yep, tried that. No change.

The other replies suggestions have one thing in common. The double
quote is replaced with a single quote.

However they did not work either.

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