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Re: Bash Prompt location
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Eric Blake |
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Re: Bash Prompt location |
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Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:04:37 -0600 |
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According to Paul Jarc on 9/21/2007 8:53 AM:
> hirochiamaru <hirochiamaru@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I saw it on a screen shot once, but this gentlemen was able to put the bash
>> prompt at the bottom of his xterm window with out fill the top portion the
>> xterm window first.
>
> yes '' | head -n "$LINES"
Or you could investigate the use of terminal escape sequences in your PS1.
Remember to use \[ and \] to delimit escape sequences, since they are
non-printing. For example, according to
http://www.termsys.demon.co.uk/vtansi.htm, PS1='\[\e[20;5H\]> ' will
output "> " at row 20 line 5, rather than the current position.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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