Hello, I recently found a shell script to truncate my prompt to a reasonable length. What I am trying to do now is color code my prompt but every time I add colors into the script the prompt will no longer use multiple lines.
What I mean is that if I am typing a command that is too long to fit on one line it will wrap around and continue typing on the same line.
The script I found is:
What I have done is make the following change:
However, adding in those color tags will cause the shell prompt to do whacky things, as mentioned above. Anyone have any ideas about this? Or other good scripts for manipulating the shell prompt?
What I mean is that if I am typing a command that is too long to fit on one line it will wrap around and continue typing on the same line.
The script I found is:
Code:
function truncate_pwd
{
if [ $HOME == $PWD ]
then
newPWD="~"
elif [ $HOME == ${PWD:0:${#HOME}} ]
then
newPWD="~${PWD:${#HOME}}"
else
newPWD=$PWD
fi
local pwdmaxlen=15
if [ ${#newPWD} -gt $pwdmaxlen ]
then
local pwdoffset=$(( ${#newPWD} - $pwdmaxlen ))
newPWD=".+${newPWD:$pwdoffset:$pwdmaxlen}"
fi
}
PROMPT_COMMAND=truncate_pwd
PS1="${ttyname}@\[${HOST_COLOUR}\]\h\[${RESET_COLOR}\]:\${newPWD}\\$ "What I have done is make the following change:
Code:
PS1="\e[0;31m${ttyname}@\[${HOST_COLOUR}\]\h\[${RESET_COLOR}\]:\${newPWD}\\$ \e[m"However, adding in those color tags will cause the shell prompt to do whacky things, as mentioned above. Anyone have any ideas about this? Or other good scripts for manipulating the shell prompt?