terminal command line weirdness

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Wed May 26 19:20:49 UTC 2004


Thanks for this link & info. I haven't yet dug deep into bash config -
and what these things mean. I guess I should do that.  Eearlier - I
must have copied the 'PS1' options from somewhere else.

Satish

On Wed, 26 May 2004, Bill Gradwohl wrote:

> Satish:
>
> I did a little digging too, now that I knew what to look for, and came up
> with http://www.javacommerce.com/tips/linux/all/00000080.html amongst other
> sites also offering similar information. A bit of man tput and man terminfo
> also helped.
>
> Long story short, I changed my PS1 as follows:
> SAVE_CRS=`tput sc 2> /dev/null`
> RESET_CRS=`tput rc 2> /dev/null`
> CLOCKPOS=`tput cup 0 $(($HZ-10)) 2> /dev/null`
> FOREG=`tput setaf 1 2> /dev/null`
> ALT_FOREG=`tput setaf 3 2> /dev/null`
> BACKG=`tput setab 0 2> /dev/null`
> NORMAL=`tput sgr0 2> /dev/null`
> BOLD=`tput bold 2> /dev/null`
>
> PS1="\[${BOLD}${FOREG}\]\u@\h \W\\$\[${NORMAL}\] "
>
> unset SAVE_CRS
> unset RESET_CRS
> unset CLOCKPOS
> unset FOREG
> unset ALT_FOREG
> unset BACKG
> unset NORMAL
> unset BOLD
>
> I'm not using most of the defined parameters, but I'm keeping them around
> for reference.
>
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