Re: bash prompt question

On 19/09/2024 at 11:34, François Patte wrote:

Bonjour,
 Wanting to personalize my bash prompt I wrote in my .bashrc file (with the help of "Learning the BASH shell"):
   export PS1='\[\e[1;35m\]\u@\h -\d- ${text} \W\[\e[m]\]\$ '

try export PS1='\[\e[1;35m\]\u@\h -\d- ${text} \W\[\e[00m\]\$ '
where do you set $text?

 What I wanted by this :
specific color
user@host
the date
wether I am on a local machine: nothing or on a remote one: ssh
and the directory
 It works but not very well: if I use the up/down arrows to call back a previous command, the behaviour changes, sometimes as if I used the keys "Inser" or "Suppr" and at the end the usage becomes awfull.
 What did I do wrong?
 I hope to be understable in English language....
 Thank you for helping.
 François Patte

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