what is wrong with this .bashrc?

ozeta · 2009-09-17 19:11:21

hi, i wrote this .bashrc for my user:

PS1='[\e[0;34m\u\e[0m@\h \W/]\$ '

and the result is this:

ozeta@dolphin ~/]$

however, with many commands (like mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480:device=/dev/video0 -fps 15 -vf screenshot), if i press the "up" key to view command history, i have troble like this:

ozeta@dolphin ~/]$ mplayer tv:mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480:device=/dev/video0 -fps 15 -vf screenshot

i cannot understand what is the problem...:o

does anybody can help me with the script? thank you

brisbin33 · 2009-09-17 19:13:03

any non printing characters must be espaced with \[ \]. like so:

PS1='[\[\e[0;34m\]\u\[\e[0m\]@\h \W/]\$ '

Last edited by brisbin33 (2009-09-17 19:13:46)

ozeta · 2009-09-17 19:45:02

brisbin33 wrote:

any non printing characters must be espaced with \[ \]. like so:
PS1='[\[\e[0;34m\]\u\[\e[0m\]@\h \W/]\$ '

hi!

EDIT:

i'm sorry, i forget to restart my user...the code works fine, thanks a lot!!

Last edited by ozeta (2009-09-17 19:50:05)

Lich · 2009-09-17 20:24:10

ozeta wrote:

brisbin33 wrote:
any non printing characters must be espaced with \[ \]. like so:
PS1='[\[\e[0;34m\]\u\[\e[0m\]@\h \W/]\$ '
hi!
EDIT:
i'm sorry, i forget to restart my user...the code works fine, thanks a lot!!

For future reference..when you change your .bashrc, there's no need to logout...just do `source ~/.bashrc`. That will read the rc file and apply changes immediatly

Boris Bolgradov · 2009-09-17 21:17:43

Lich wrote:

For future reference..when you change your .bashrc, there's no need to logout...just do `source ~/.bashrc`. That will read the rc file and apply changes immediatly

For this terminal only.

Lich · 2009-09-17 21:39:14

Boris Bolgradov wrote:

Lich wrote:
For future reference..when you change your .bashrc, there's no need to logout...just do `source ~/.bashrc`. That will read the rc file and apply changes immediatly
For this terminal only.

Correct, but newly spawned terminals will use the new settings aswell

ozeta · 2009-09-19 06:48:33

Lich wrote:

ozeta wrote:
brisbin33 wrote:
any non printing characters must be espaced with \[ \]. like so:
PS1='[\[\e[0;34m\]\u\[\e[0m\]@\h \W/]\$ '
hi!
EDIT:
i'm sorry, i forget to restart my user...the code works fine, thanks a lot!!
For future reference..when you change your .bashrc, there's no need to logout...just do `source ~/.bashrc`. That will read the rc file and apply changes immediatly

nice!

thanks!

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#1 2009-09-17 19:11:21

what is wrong with this .bashrc?

#2 2009-09-17 19:13:03

Re: what is wrong with this .bashrc?

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