General :: Variable Length Console Prompt?

Jul 15, 2010

I have a question about the prompt. it is very easy to tune it for it to be colored and display path where you are etc. But my problem is that when the path is too long I would prefer the code line to be on the folowing line...

Ex
11:00 me@host a/short/path > ls -ltr ./stuff
11:00 me@host a/very/very/very/long/path
> ls -ltr ./stuff

and to be honnest as I am very new in LINUX I don't know how to do this...

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General :: Implementing A Variable-length List Of Keywords In Mysql?

Sep 20, 2010

I'm having a hard time googling for answers because I keep using the word "keyword."

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Since there's no way to know ahead of time how many keywords, if any, each article might warrant, I'm not sure how to put this in database form. There's no variable-sized array data type. It seems sloppy to just list them all in a single VARCHAR column. Making several columns that may or may not be left null and putting one keyword in each seems wasteful.

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Aug 6, 2010

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***History***
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Code:
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__u8 name_len; /* Name length */
__u8 file_type;
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Code:
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Feb 1, 2010

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Jul 12, 2010

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etc.

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Jan 20, 2011

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