When I look through my bash history (by pressing up), occasionally the first 3 or 4 characters of a command will stay and push everything else forward.
For example, suppose my last few commands were:
vi .bashrc
ls | grep D
cal
And then I was trying to edit .bashrc again. After hitting up three times my prompt would say:
$ ls |vi.bashrc
The command would still work as intended but seeing this is very strange and often confusing at first. I searched around and couldn't really find anyone else reporting this issue and was at least wondering if anyone knew how this could happen. I have a modified prompt, if that could cause it. From my .bashrc file:
export PS1="\e[36;40m\A \w\n$ \e[0m"
So it looks something like:
military-time pwd
$
Any explanation (even if in lieu of a fix) would be appreciated. As I said, it's doesn't really impede functionality, it's just odd. Thanks in advance.
For example, suppose my last few commands were:
vi .bashrc
ls | grep D
cal
And then I was trying to edit .bashrc again. After hitting up three times my prompt would say:
$ ls |vi.bashrc
The command would still work as intended but seeing this is very strange and often confusing at first. I searched around and couldn't really find anyone else reporting this issue and was at least wondering if anyone knew how this could happen. I have a modified prompt, if that could cause it. From my .bashrc file:
export PS1="\e[36;40m\A \w\n$ \e[0m"
So it looks something like:
military-time pwd
$
Any explanation (even if in lieu of a fix) would be appreciated. As I said, it's doesn't really impede functionality, it's just odd. Thanks in advance.