please help make my bash prompt color

extendedping · 04-02-2009, 07:53 PM

well I am looking for green (one computer) and red the other. I followed to the best of my limited abilities to follow some internet instructions but I could not get it so the prompt allowed line wrapping of commands. I am using fedora 10 and centos 5.3. this is my prompt. I thought this would be easy but its not for me.

[\u@\h \W]\$

again I want the exact same prompt this creates but colored. thanks much.

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} · 04-02-2009, 08:03 PM

Did you add the entries to your home/username/.bashrc file?

burninGpi · 04-02-2009, 08:26 PM

You need to put \[ and \] around the non-printing characters, for example:

Code:

\[\033[31m\][\u@\h \W]\$ \[\033[0m\]

for red, or:

Code:

\[\033[32m\][\u@\h \W]\$ \[\033[0m\]

for green.

extendedping · 04-02-2009, 08:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by burninGpi

You need to put \[ and \] around the non-printing characters, for example:

Code:

\[\033[31m\][\u@\h \W]\$ \[\033[0m\]

for red, or:

Code:

\[\033[32m\][\u@\h \W]\$ \[\033[0m\]

for green.

thank you the way I did it did not use the same format this works perfectly...

John VV · 04-02-2009, 09:47 PM

on fedora gnome-terminal that can be done with the terminal gui , from
edit/current profile

and select the colors tab and set it there to custom or to use system default if that IS the system theme text color
i wrote my theme so i set the terminal text color there