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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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