On 17Oct2009 21:16, Todd Zullinger <tmz@xxxxxxxxx> 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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The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 364737.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, [...]
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