Thanks to the following people who have provided advice, errata, and examples for this document.
Paul D. Smith <[email protected]>
and
Christophe Martin <[email protected]>
both pointed out that I had the quotes the wrong way round in the
bash
$PROMPT_COMMAND
. Getting them right
means variables are expanded dynamically.
Paul D. Smith <[email protected]>
suggested the use of \[...\]
in the bash
prompt for embedding non-printing characters.
Christophe Martin <[email protected]>
provided the solution for ksh
.
Keith Turner <[email protected]>
supplied the escape sequences for Sun cmdtool
and
shelltool
.
Jean-Albert Ferrez <[email protected]>
pointed out some inconsistencies in the use of "PWD
"
and "$PWD
", and in the use of "\
" vs "\\
".
Bob Ellison <[email protected]>
and
Jim Searle <[email protected]>
tested dtterm
on HP-UX.
Teng-Fong Seak <[email protected]>
suggested the
-s
option for hostname
, use of `pwd`
, and
use of echo
under csh
.
Trilia <[email protected]>
suggested examples
in other languages.
Brian Miller <[email protected]>
supplied the
escape sequences and examples for hpterm
.
Lenny Mastrototaro <[email protected]>
explained
the Irix terminals' use of xterm escape sequences.
Paolo Supino <[email protected]>
suggested the use
of \\$
in the bash
prompt.