Strange behavior with PS1 prompt

[Cameron Simpson]

On 17Oct2009 21:16, Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> wrote:
| I don't think this is a bug.  Rather, I think the problem is caused by
| not escaping the color codes you have embedded in your prompt.  Try
| this instead:
| 
| export PS1="\n\[\033[0;35m\][\u@\h] ${PWD}\n$\[\033[0m\]"
| 
| The \[ and \] begin and end a series of non-printable characters.
| This tells bash not to count those characters when determining the
| length of the prompt.  So the color escape sequences are wrapped in \[
| and \].

This is all beautiful, but I think you need to use single quotes instead
of doubles.
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