[ale] $PS1 stuff

[Nick Lucent]

On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, David S. Jackson wrote:

You might want to check the man page for ascii(7) it should have the codes
your looking for.

Nick

ps. david email me sometime and let me know how everything is going

> Hi,
> 
> I was trying to customize my $PS1 variable a little bit with some ANSI color
> escapes, and I find that I can do it with bash 2.0.x but can't quite do it
> with bash 1.4.7.  At least not the same way.  Two questions:
> 
> first:  PS1="\[\e[1;31m\e \e[47m\] \d \@ BASH \V in \w \[\e[1;33m \e[40m \]
> \n[\u@\h \W]\$ "  seems to work fine with BASH 2.0, but not with 1.4.7.  I
> tried the ^[ escapes, and that didn't seem to work either.  I've tried
> TERM=xterm, TERM=xterm-color.  No go either way.  Any ideas for getting
> something like this to work with Bash 1.4.X?
> 
> second:  I'd like to add nifty ASCII characters to the PS1 line, but I have
> to enter their octal values as \nnn where "nnn" = the octal value of the
> ASCII character in question.  I found an old table with decimal and hex
> equivalents, but how do I convert them to octal for the PS1 variable?
> 
> TIA!
> 
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