Text not wrapping on console

Cedrik · 08-01-2004, 10:39 AM

What does you expect with this prompt ?

tinhat · 08-01-2004, 11:04 AM

Actually its the remnants of the bash_profile that shipped with VectorLinix 3.2. (In short I don't know)
I must have tried to modify it in some way screwing it up. I played around and got a usable PS1
by stripping out everything after "PS1=" and replacing it with PS1="\u@\h:\w\$ " which works.
No problems with line wrapping in the console.

Many thanks!

SiegeX · 08-01-2004, 05:34 PM

Kudos to whomever suggested the PS1 syntax issue because now that I remember back when making my prompt, that is exactly the issue I had, dunno why I forgot. Anyway here is a prompt I made, I think its pretty usefull, it puts the path you are in above the actual prompt because I hate it when I am in a very deep directory tree and everything line wraps. Also I colorized the prompt to yellow for regular users and red for root just so I remember not to do anything stupid as root. Toss all of this into your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile.

Code:

function my_prompt_command {
 local WHITE=`echo -e "\033[1;37m\c"`
 local BLUE=`echo -e "\033[1;34m\c"`
 local GREEN=`echo -e "\033[1;32m\c]"`
 local DOWNBRACK=`echo -e "\033(0\154\161\033(B\c"`
 local PWD=`pwd`
#echo -e "$WHITE$DOWNBRACK($PWD)"
 echo -e "$WHITE($PWD)"
}

PROMPT_COMMAND=my_prompt_command

function fluxprompt {
 local WHITE="\[\033[1;37m\]"
 local CYAN="\[\033[1;36m\]"
 local YELLOW="\[\033[1;33m\]"
 local RED="\[\033[1;31m\]"
 local NO_COLOR="\[\033[0m\]"
 local UPBRACK=`echo -e "\[\033(0\155\161\033(B\c\]"`

 case $TERM in
     xterm*|rxvt*|Eterm*)
         TITLEBAR='\[\033]0;\u@\h:\w\007\]'
         ;;
     *)
         TITLEBAR=""
         ;;
 esac

PS1="$TITLEBAR\
$WHITE[\
$YELLOW\u@\h\
$WHITE]\
$NO_COLOR\\$ "
}

fluxprompt

It ends up looking something like this:

Code:

(/usr/share/sendmail/cf/cf)
[root@maximus]#

To make it red for root simply change the line near the bottom that says

Code:

$YELLOW\u@\h\
to
$RED\u@\h\

Also, for all you bash guru's out there, if you notice in my prompt I have commented out the line in function fluxprompt {} section.

Code:

#echo -e "$WHITE$DOWNBRACK($PWD)"

When I made this prompt back when I was using Mandrake 9.2, this made a nice little ASCI bracket and I used a similar one called UPBRACK in the PS1 var to connect them together, it approximatly looks like this.

Code:

 _
| (/usr/share/sendmail/cf/cf)
|_[root@maximus]#

Well the reason I commented them out was because in Slackware 9.1/10 it outputs the letters 'lq' and 'mq' instead of the nice little brackets and looks like this:

Code:

lq(/usr/share/sendmail/cf/cf)
mq[root@maximus]#

The odd thing is when I ssh into my box with PuTTY, I see the nice brakets . If sombody could shed some light as to why this is I would appreciate it. Thanks

vrox · 08-31-2005, 05:36 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Cedrik
Try :

stty cols 40 rows 25

(adjust the 40 value to suit your needs)

Thank you so much! You have no idea how irritating this has been

MS3FGX · 09-01-2005, 12:50 AM

Quite the bump here.

But since I never posted a close for this, I might as well do it now.

If I recall correctly, in the end, it turns out Cedrik got it right, and it was a problem in my PS1 line. Somewhere along the line I modified it, and screwed it up somehow.

Writing a new custom line from scratch fixed it.