Alright, when I run certain commands the wrong way, (misspelled, etc.) The terminal outputs this: > instead of computername:workingfolder username$, and when I type enter it goes like this:
I like to keep my bash_profile in a git repository and clone it to whatever machines I have shell access to. Since I’m in tmux most of the time I have a [email protected] string in the status line, rather than its traditional spot in the shell prompt.
The default prompt will be
Lets’s say my prompt looks like this (the _ represents my cursor)
Operating a standard bash shell on a server, the PS1 prompt defaults to ending in a $ for non-root users, and # for root.
Consider the simple script hello:
GREEN="e[1;32m" RED="e[1;31m" NONE="e[m" get_exit_status(){ es=$? if [ $es -eq 0 ] then echo -e "${GREEN}${es}${NONE}" else echo -e "${RED}${es}${NONE}" fi } get_path(){ #dummy function echo "PATH" } PROMPT_COMMAND='exitStatus=$(get_exit_status)' The following gives me the correct exitStatus but colour variables are not expanded: PS1='${RED}h $(get_path) ${exitStatus}${NONE} ' However, the one below, gives me the colours but the … Read more
As of late, and without my deliberately doing anything to make it happen, my Bash prompt has an at sign (i.e. @) prepended to it. This did not previously happen. Nor can I see anything in my ~/.bashrc that seems as though it ought to be making this happen.
I connect to a Slackware server. When a command is longer than the size of the putty window, the line continues in the same line, and the start of the command disappears as I continue adding to the same command, just putting a “<” at the beginning of the line.