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On 2018-08-26 15:41, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>>        PS1="\[\e[1;32m\]\h \! $ \[\e[0m\] "
>> The real issue is that I still have no real clue on how these escape 
>> sequences work!! ...
> `man bash`, section PROMPTING
$ LESS='+/^\s*PROMPTING' man bash

Mostly provided with GNU programs, info often has more complete descriptions of
options and features than man pages, which may be brief for some GNU programs.

$ info bash 'Bash Features' Controlling

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