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From: =?UTF-8?Q?Fran=C3=A7ois_Patte?= <francois.patte@mi.parisdescartes.fr>
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Subject: bash prompt question
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:34:55 +0200
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Bonjour,

Wanting to personalize my bash prompt I wrote in my .bashrc file (with 
the help of "Learning the BASH shell"):

  export PS1='\[\e[1;35m\]\u@\h -\d- ${text} \W\[\e[m]\]\$ '

What I wanted by this :
specific color
user@host
the date
wether I am on a local machine: nothing or on a remote one: ssh
and the directory

It works but not very well: if I use the up/down arrows to call back a 
previous command, the behaviour changes, sometimes as if I used the keys 
"Inser" or "Suppr" and at the end the usage becomes awfull.

What did I do wrong?

I hope to be understable in English language....

Thank you for helping.

François Patte