Shell Prompt Line Wrapping Issue

Question

I\'ve done something to break my Bash Shell Prompt in OS X (10.5.7) Terminal.

This is the PS1 that I had configured:

PS1=\'\\[\\e[1;32m\\]\\h\\[\\e[0m\\]         


        

Answer 1

Line wrapping issues in Bash are nothing new. Your PS1 should work as is but there is a bug in Bash 3.2.49. Consult the mailing list, there's yet another bug regarding this which was confirmed to be fixed in 4.0.

You can't do much more than tagging unprintable characters with \[ and \], the rest must be done by the prompting code.