1.7. Credits/Bibliography
In producing this document, I have borrowed heavily from the work of the
Bashprompt project, which was at http://bash.current.nu/. This site
was removed from its server as of July 2001 but Robert Current, the admin,
assured me it would reappear soon. Unfortunately, it appears he's now (May
2003) let his domain registration lapse. The work of that project is
carried on indirectly by Bashish
(http://bashish.sourceforge.net/), with whom I've had no contact.
Other sources used include the xterm Title mini-HOWTO
by Ric Lister, available at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Xterm-Title.html, Ansi
Prompts by Keebler, available at http://www.ncal.verio.com/~keebler/ansi.html (now deceased),
How to make a Bash Prompt Theme by Stephen Webb,
available at http://bash.current.nu/bash/HOWTO.html (also deceased), and
X ANSI Fonts by Stumpy, available at http://home.earthlink.net/~us5zahns/enl/ansifont.html.
Also of immense help were several conversations and e-mails from Dan,
who used to work at Georgia College & State University, whose knowledge
of Unix far exceeded mine. He gave me several excellent suggestions,
and ideas of his have led to some interesting prompts.
Three books that have been very useful while programming prompts are
Linux in a Nutshell by Jessica Heckman Perry
(O'Reilly, 3rd ed., 2000), Learning the Bash Shell by
Cameron Newham and Bill Rosenblatt (O'Reilly, 2nd ed., 1998) and
Unix Shell Programming by Lowell
Jay Arthur (Wiley, 1986. This is the first edition, the fourth came out in
1997).