Re: help with color and $PS1

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From: David. E. Goble
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 08:21

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Hi All;
>
>PS1="\n\[\033[1;35m\]IBM 686/pr120+ Linux RedHat 6.2
>\[\033[0;36m\]\$(date)\n\[\u@\h \W]\\$ "
>

Had another look at it and got it working. Looks like the trick was to
set the color again after the \n.

Thanks to Gilles; I started with

	PS1="\[\e[1;31m\]\h:\w\$\[\e[0;0m\] "

It did not work, so replaced the \e with \033 and it did, then I added
the rest.

# /etc/bashrc
...
    PS1="\n\[\033[1;35m\]IBM 686/pr120+ Linux RedHat 6.2
\[\033[0;36m\]\$(date)\n\[\033[0;36m\][\u@\h: \w]\\$ \[\033[0;0m\]"

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