On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 09:48:32AM +0000, Jon Dowland wrote: > This is a bit slow, mind, if you really want to change the > text colour for the root user then you should "unwind" the > control characters instead by preserving the older PS1 and > keeping track of which control sequences you've "opened":
Working example of this: ~root/.bash_login OLDPS1="$PS1" PS1='\[\e[0;1;31m\]\$ ' ~root/.bash_logout echo -en '\e[0m' PS1="$OLDPS1"
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