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Re: Cmd history is not displaying correctly
From: |
Greg Wooledge |
Subject: |
Re: Cmd history is not displaying correctly |
Date: |
Sun, 19 Feb 2023 09:07:30 -0500 |
On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 03:05:24PM +0200, Mr. Dick Steel wrote:
> 4. Use up arrow to scroll cmd history up until you hit:
> "$ valgrind --leak-check=full ./target/debug/hostname-ip-address"
> and press up arrow once more and you will get:
> "$ valgrind -cd rust/hostname-ip-address"
>
> Expected result:
> "$ cd rust/hostname-ip-address/"
This sounds like a PS1 (prompt) issue to me. Do you have color escape
sequences, or other such things, in your PS1 variable? If so, they have
to be isolated within \[ \] markers, so bash knows they don't cause
the cursor to move.
https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/053