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From: Chris Elvidge <chris@internal.net>
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Subject: Re: bash prompt question
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:20:40 +0100
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On 19/09/2024 at 11:34, François Patte wrote:
> 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\[\e[m]\]\$ '

try export PS1='\[\e[1;35m\]\u@\h -\d- ${text} \W\[\e[00m\]\$ '

where do you set $text?

> 
> 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



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