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Re: Cursor appears at start of line rather than end of prompt


---Jeff Paulsen <jeff.paulsen@poorman-douglas.com> wrote:
>
> 
> Why might it be, that my cursor appears at the start of each line
rather
> than the end of the prompt? This was not true three days ago; I have
> changed lots of things and have no idea which might have done this.

You've changed to binary mounts.  The PS1 variable contains a \r as it
existed with text mounts.  Modify the .bashrc file or what ever file
is setting the PS1 variable to _NOT_ have the \r.

One way to do this is:

cp [file] [junk]
tr -d "\r" < [junk] > [file]
rm [junk]

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