Re: terminal command line weirdness

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try this in profile, dont ask me what it means or does..

shopt -s checkwinsize

cd /fixforbug29665 >/dev/null


El lun, 24-05-2004 a las 18:58, Bill Gradwohl escribió:
> Using a terminal window, quite often I execute very long command line
> statements that don't use all the space on the right of the command line
> before they wrap on to the beginning of the same line and obscure the start
> of that line. It overwrites the PS1 prompt string and then overwrites the
> start of the command I'm working on.
> 
> Anyone that's keyed in a long command line knows what I'm talking about. If
> you haven't, open a terminal window and just key in 2 commands:
> echo hello
> echo 'Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow. And everywhere
> that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go.'
> The long one will demonstrate my point.
> 
> If I up arrow to retrieve the short echo command it starts working its way
> back up the terminal window. Attempting to alter a long command retrieved
> from history sometimes builds a pyramid of rubbish that also walks up the
> terminal window.
> 
> This has happened since RH7.1 that I'm aware of.
> 
> Anyone know how to fix this?
> 
> -- 
> Bill Gradwohl
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