can ksh prompt (PS1) be colored?

[ogniemi]

please give me some examples if it is possible.

I am using putty

 

[KenCunningham]

Not sure about putty, but:

export PS1=`echo "\033[36m"``uname -n`'$PWD''...'`echo "\033[31m\033[1m"`'$LOGNAME'`echo "\n\033[37m\033[0m"`'>'

gives you a $PS1 with servername/working directory/...username> (before the '...' in blue, after it in red).

There are probably easier ways to set this up, however!

 

[p5wizard]

Yes, it seems not possible to turn the color around in the middle of a screen line...

ps1='#'                      # better use a case or if/else here: root -> # otherwise -> $
REDONYELLOW="^[[0;31;43m"    # insert ESC char with ctrl-V ESC
WHITEONBLACK="^[[0;37;40m"   # same here
PS1=${REDONYELLOW}$(hostname):'[$PWD]${WHITEONBLACK}
${ps1} '

the numbers for atrributes/foreground color/background color can be found on the web (Google's lucky shot):

http://linuxgazette.net/issue65/padala.html

I also tried "tput setf 1" and "tput setb 3" to make this more portable but that does not seem to work for xterm/putty - I guess the xterm terminfo is incomplete?



HTH,

p5wizard

 

[ogniemi]

thx!