Re: help with color and $PS1

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From: N. Yeamans
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 04:34

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Upon the 31 of May in the hour of 21 MDT, the great David. E. Goble did decree:

> PS1="\n\[\033[1;35m\]IBM 686/pr120+ Linux RedHat 6.2
> \[\033[0;36m\]\$(date)\n\[\u@\h \W]\\$ "
> 
> How do I reset the color, so that everything typed by the user is
> light grey, while keeping the prompts colors.

See if this helps:  '\[\033[37;40;0;10m\]'  I think it resets all colors and
highlightings.  I tested it in my virtual term, rxvt, and xterm.  Appears to
work, but I just pulled it out of code I wrote a year ago...don't remember how
it works.

--
Norman Yeamans - x43896@home.com

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