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Re: Formatting PS1
- To: klaus dot berndl at sdm dot de
- Subject: Re: Formatting PS1
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 09:57:57 -0500
- CC: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <C9A98ED35114D31197D000805FEA668E0176E527@mucexch.muc.sdm.de>
> What´s the correct format to make PS1 to display soem parts of it
> (e.g. \u) in another color (lets say blue) and in bold? Where can i
> get the documentation for this? The man-page of bash is not very
> helpful i this task...
You have to embed ANSI escape codes. Setup should have installed an
/etc/profile that does this by default.
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