I'll try that asap ... Thanks
-----Message d'origine----- De : Greg Wooledge [mailto:wool...@eeg.ccf.org] Envoyé : vendredi 5 juillet 2013 14:31 À : BASTIDON, Stéphane Cc : bug-bash@gnu.org Objet : Re: PS1 multiline with colors On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 12:21:13PM +0000, BASTIDON, Stéphane wrote: > Now my case is a little more complex: > I want my prompt changes colors according to $PWD Then I write something like > that: This is the kind of thing where I suggest using PROMPT_COMMAND. normal=$(tput sgr0) red=$(tput setaf 1) green=$(tput setaf 2) ... PROMPT_COMMAND=' case $PWD in /usr/local/*) color=$red ;; /var/*) color=$green ;; ... esac ' PS1='\u@\h:\[$color\]\w\[$normal\]\$ ' export normal red green ... PROMPT_COMMAND PS1 The PROMPT_COMMAND will be evaluated before PS1. You can use it to set variables that PS1 will use, all without the horrible speed penalty of a fork/exec.
