Re: Bash escape character troubles

[Peder Stray]

On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, Troy Curtis Jr wrote:

> I used to run Gentoo and when I moved to Ubuntu all the sudden my Bash
> prompt command would work correctly.  It would correctly set the
> window title but it would also display "134134" in front of my prompt.
> Here is my PROMPT_COMMAND line:
>
> export PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033k\033\134\033k$(if [ ${UID} ==
> "0" ]; then echo "root"; else $(if [ ${HOSTNAME} != "malkier" ]; then
> echo ${HOSTNAME}; fi;); echo [$(basename "${PWD}" | sed
> "s/^\([[:alnum:][:space:].]\{0,25\}\).*$/\1/" )]; fi;)\033\134"'

Try using \0134 or just \\ instead of \134.

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