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		milkbikis on Sept 9, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Powerline-style prompt for Bash I used the ANSI control codes for moving the cursor, which seems to overwrite previous lines. Not sure if there's another way to achieve that without overwriting lines though.

ericbb on Sept 9, 2012 [–]

Maybe use \033[L (ANSI for insert-line).

Edit: If I understand what you're doing, then maybe you can use this:

    tput ind; tput home; tput il1; echo -n "header"; tput el; tput cup $LINES 0

Use "man terminfo" to lookup things like "il1" and use "infocmp" to see what they translate to in your terminal.

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