[ale] $PS1 stuff

[Zhongbin Yu " <zyu at tc.net>]

command 'od' can dump octal.

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

> 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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