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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Changing PS1 Post 302733247 by kristinu on Tuesday 20th of November 2012 03:23:33 AM
Old 11-20-2012
Changing PS1
I have coded PS1 as shown, producing the following result when writing on the command line

Code:
┌─ cdl[/media/ios120/chrisd/tomso-12.04/source]
└──╼ make tracepdf2d

If I make an error in the command an ✗ is printed
Code:
┌─ ✗ cdl[/media/ios120/chrisd/tomso-12.04/source]
└──╼ ls-a
ls-a: command not found

My problem is that if I just press enter, I do not want to have the ✗ printed.




Code:
    PS1="\[\033[0;37m\]\342\224\214\342\224\200\$([[ \$? != 0 ]] && echo \" \[\033[0;31m\]\342\234\2
27\[\033[0;37m\]\342\224\")$(if [[ ${EUID} == 0 ]]; then echo '\[\033[0;31m\]\h'; else echo '\[\033[
01;33m\] cdl'; fi)\[\033[0;37m\][\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[0;37m\]]\n\[\033[0;37m\]\342\224\224\342\22
4\200\342\224\200\342\225\274 \[\033[0m\]"

 

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colormake(1)						      General Commands Manual						      colormake(1)

NAME

       colormake - color wrapper for make(1)

SYNOPSIS

       colormake [ --short ] ...

DESCRIPTION

       colormake acts as a wrapper around make(1) to ease reading the output by colorizing it.

OPTIONS

       The --short option instructs colormake to truncate lines so they do not wrap.  All other options will be passed unmodified to make(1).

USAGE

       To change a makefile to use colormake, you may change the path at the top which normally reads #!/usr/bin/make to #!/usr/bin/colormake.

       Alternately, you may type colormake whenever you would normally type make when compiling programs.

       Colormake  is  also  available  using  the alternate names which enable piping through less (clmake), truncated output so lines do not wrap
       (colormake-short), or both (clmake-short).

FILES

       The configuration files are Perl scripts included by colormake.pl.  The defaults values are (from colormake.pl itself):
       # Some useful color codes, see end of file for more.
       #
       $col_black =	   "33[30m";
       $col_red =	   "33[31m";
       $col_green =	   "33[32m";
       $col_yellow =	   "33[33m";
       $col_blue =	   "33[34m";
       $col_magenta =	   "33[35m";
       $col_cyan =	   "33[36m";
       $col_ltgray =	   "33[37m";

       $col_norm =	   "33[00m";
       $col_background =   "33[07m";
       $col_brighten =	   "33[01m";
       $col_underline =    "33[04m";
       $col_blink =	   "33[05m";

       # Customize colors here...
       #
       $col_default =	   $col_ltgray;
       $col_gcc =	   $col_magenta . $col_brighten;
       $col_make =	   $col_cyan;
       $col_filename =	   $col_yellow;
       $col_linenum =	   $col_cyan;
       $col_trace =	   $col_yellow;
       $col_warning =	   $col_green;
       $tag_error =	   "";
       $col_error =	   $tag_error . $col_yellow . $col_brighten;
       $error_highlight =  $col_brighten;

       For use with gnome-terminal I have the following configuration in my $HOME/.colormakerc file:
       $col_default =	   $col_black;
       $col_gcc =	   $col_magenta;
       $col_filename =	   $col_blue;
       $col_linenum =	   $col_cyan;
       $col_error =	   $tag_error . $col_red . $col_brighten;

       /usr/share/colormake/colormake.rc
	      System-wide configuration file for colormake.

       $HOME/.colormakerc
	      Personal configuration file for colormake.

HISTORY

       /usr/bin/colormake was formerly named /usr/bin/cmake but had to be renamed because of a name clash.

AUTHORS

       Bjarni R. Einarsson is the author of colormake.

       This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

       This manual page was written by Joe Wreschnig <piman@sacredchao.net> and updated by Ludovic Rousseau <rousseau@debian.org>, for the  Debian
       GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

SEE ALSO

       make(1), clmake(1)

								  July 2nd, 2001						      colormake(1)
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