Bash

[Will]

Why, when I set up colours in my .bashrc file and/or .bash_login, do they come out as dull, rather than bright?

Edit : Using this colour chart...I'm leaving the background code as 40, and this is not in an xterm.

 

[Testin da Cable]

did you compile bash from scratch?

 

[Will]

I used the FreeBSD port system to do it.

 

[Testin da Cable]

show me what codes you use to set your prompt then

 

[Will]

Bah, I'm not at home. Do you want a guess?

 

[Testin da Cable]

be my guesst

 

[Will]

export PS1="\t \u@\h \W $ "

is what my user account is currently running (change $ for # when running root).

When I coloured it, I tried (simple one)

export PS1="\t \e[31;40m\u@\h \W\e[0m $ "

 

[Will]

Originally posted by Testin da Cable
Will. wrote on 21-01-03 16:21:
TdC aer teh leet0r

Did I mention how much I hate you?

 

[Testin da Cable]

I know you wub meh really



mmm so off the top of my head it should be something like this

PS1="\t \[\033[1;40m\][\u@\h \W]\[\033[0m\]$ "


or something. can't access anything with unix/bash atm. only evil nsk's and they aren't any help. hope I didn't make a typo heh

 

[Will]

I'll give that a go. IBM seem to think my way was right, but it did give the wrong colours. There isn't any harm in playing, so I'll try it out in a couple of hours when I get home.

 

[Testin da Cable]

ah well, we'll see. I really should get some work in. laters