On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 20:48, Daniel Underwood < daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted] > wrote:

For those who may be interested, I found the flaw after reading
O'Reilly's "bash Cookbook"

This:

PS1='[\u@\[\e[0;31m\h\e[0m]\]:\W\$ '

Should be:

PS1='[\u@\[\e[0;31m\]\h\[\e[0m]\]:\W\$ '


EXPLANATION:  "\e[0;31m" has to be enclosed within escaped brackets like
"\[\e[0;31m\]" because it's a non-printing character.  Similarly,
"\e[0m]" must be enclosed within escaped brackets like "\[\e[0m]\]".
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Daniel Underwood
North Carolina State University
Graduate Student - Operations Research
email: daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted]
phone: XXX.302.3291
web: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~djunderw/