Hello everyone,

I apologize if this is the wrong area to post this as this is software I'm using on Windows. However, I'm connecting to Linux so I wanted to post on here as I'm sure a large number of users here probably use it.

When I'm using Putty (it usually does it worse on one monitor but happens on both which are the same model hooked up to the same machine). When I'm issuing commands or get output from a command that's more than a couple characters long I get an early wrap but it doesn't go down to a new line. The text covers itself up as it wraps around to the same exact line. I wanted to attach a screenshot and will as soon as I get a chance but it doesn't always have the issue and of course even though it was doing it at the start of this post as soon as I tried to recreate it for a screenshot it stopped doing it.

I searched around but I couldn't find a phrasing that found any matches even though I'm sure there are some.

Any help is appreciated or just a point in the right direction and I can probably find it from there.

Thanks again!

If the box you are connecting to has a really crazy PS1 (command prompt) then you can get into really strange emulation issues like this.

On the box you are connecting to what do you get for:

It actually happens on almost every server I connect to when it is happening. We have a few thousand servers here that I manage mainly through Puppet & CFEngine but CFEngine is being phased out.

Ok. Heres the thing.

That WHOLE prompt is made up of what a terminal emulator will see as "non printing characters."

So it will not make adjustments to the line wrap. It will assume, that even though 30 characters are already in use from your prompt, once expanded, that you are in fact at pos 5 on the line. Hence your issue.

The EASIEST way to fix this is:

when you log in, run a quick:

Or you can look up how non-printing characters affect your line length and fix your prompt globally.

edit: here is the first link regarding it. quick glance says it is what you are looking for.

http://mike.geek-republic.com/2009/0...e-wrap-issues/

Thank you very much for the response. I don't have time to test it out at the moment but after a quick skim it looks like you're most likely right.

Much appreciated.

I've marked this as solved. That definitely fixed it. I'm going to browse through that a bit more... I used: PS1="[\W]\$ \[\e]2;[\d \t] [\w]\a\]" and placed it in my ~/.bash_profile.

That cut off basically everything. I'm trying to play with it a bit. I want it to show my user & server name without it cutting everything off. But still, nice to at least be able to see everything I type for now.

Thanks again.