A while ago, somebody in this forum posted how to make the current working directory appear on the title bar in an xterm. I lost that article somehow; could the author repost it? Thanks in advance...
On Aug 22, 1997, at 22:44, Dave Cinege wrote: > On Fri, 22 Aug 1997 12:32:35 -0300 (EST), Daniel Doro Ferrante wrote: > > Does anybody know how do I change colors in a bash prompt. I can > >do it in tcsh, but no succes with bash... (even after reading the man). > > #b/w prompt > #PS1="\\h\\$ \\u [\\w] " > > #Pretty color prompt. Comment it out if your terminal doesn't support ANSI co > > #We must encase the ANSI codes in \[ and \] or else bash will have line lengt > #problems. \e is a pretty form of the raw escape sequence > PS1="\\[\\e[1;31m\\]\\h\\[\\e[0m\\]\\$ \\u [\\[\\e[1;34m\\]\\w\\[\\e[0m\\]] " -- Gonzalo A. Diethelm G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .