Re: Cmd history is not displaying correctly

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/19/23 9:34 AM, Mr. Dick Steel wrote:
> On 19-02-2023 16:21, Martin D Kealey wrote:
>
> > at this point, what is in the file? does « wc -l  .bash_history » report 13?
>
> It reports:
> 13 .bash_history
>
> If I disable PS1 coloring, everything works correctly.

You can also mark these sequences of non-printing characters in the prompt
string using the \[ and \] escape sequences, so readline knows about them.

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