bash prompt and echoing colors inside a function

Question

I have this in my .bashrc:

LIGHTGREEN=\"\\[\\033[1;32m\\]\"
LIGHTRED=\"\\[\\033[1;31m\\]\"
WHITE=\"\\[\\033[0;37m\\]\"
RESET=\"\\[\\033[0;00m\\]\"

function          


        

Answer 1

This will work fine.

LIGHTGREEN="\e[32m"
LIGHTRED="\e[31m"
RESET="\e[0m"

error_test () {
    if [[ $? = "0" ]]; then
        echo -e "$LIGHTGREEN"
    else
        echo -e "$LIGHTRED"
    fi
}
export PS1=$(printf "$(error_test) $(whoami)@${RESET}$(pwd) ")