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

For future reference, this is what I use:

export PS1="\[\033[0;31m\][\u@Project:\w]$\[\033[0m\] "

This would display my shell prompt as:

[ec2-user@Project:~]$

Helps me distinguish between live and dev sites.