Tony van der Hoff put forth on 2/11/2010 11:53 AM: > So, I've set my PS1 in /root/.bashrc as suggested. > From my user shell, I do 'su', and the prompt, and everything following > is in red - good! > CTRL-D returns me to my user shell, and everything is still red - bad!
CTRL-D is new to me. Thanks for the trick. > So, I figured that export PS1='\[\033[0;31...@\w$\033[0;30m \]' would > return it back to black after the prompt - which it does, and I can live > with that, but ideally, I'd like to save away the present colour, and > restore it. > Can anyone suggest how to do that? It works for me. I use this: /root/.bashrc export PS1="$(tput setaf 1)[\T]$(tput setaf 1)[...@\h]$(tput sgr0)\w$ " /home/stan/.bashrc if [ "$PS1" ]; then PS1="$(tput setaf 2)[\T]$(tput setaf 2)[...@\h]$(tput sgr0)\w$ " fi When I from su the prompt color is back to that defined directly above for user stan. > PS - where are these escape sequences documented, please? I use this as my reference. Not a bash manual, but works for me: http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Customize-the-Shell-Prompt-40033.shtml -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
