Re: OT: Exporting a BASH prompt from a script

From: Shreyas Ananthan (shreyas_at_stallion.umd.edu)
Date: 03/26/05

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Date: 26 Mar 2005 17:45:47 -0500

    Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com> writes:

    > I'm having a strange problem.  I've installed some new systems and I can
    > change the prompt as I want, but if I write any kind of script, and change
    > the prompt within the script, it doesn't change the prompt.  This is even
    > with a short 1 line script that does nothing but change the prompt.
    >
    > Here's the prompt I'm trying to use (which includes escape characters, which
    > seem to be causing the problem -- bash seems to see them as commands):
    >
    > PS1="\e[35;40m[\u@\h:\W]\\$\e[0m "
    >
    > I know my old .bashrc changed the prompt (only PS1), but I don't remember
    > doing anything other than PS1="{my prompt}" to get it to do that.  Now it
    > won't work.  I tried to export PS1 so it would be available outside the
    > script, but export didn't like some of the characters in it.
    >
    > So how can I export a prompt I create in a script (like .bashrc) to use
    > outside the script (in normal command line)?

    When you run a script, it runs inside a new shell which is terminated
    when the script is completed. If you want the commands in the script
    to affect the current shell you want to do

    debian$ source ./<script name>

    instead of

    debian$ ./<script name>

    Hope that helps. 

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