On Sun, 19 May 1996, Paul Goyette wrote:

> Try `<esc>[0m' which resets all video modes, including blink, bold,
> underline, and reverse.

This could probably be done more simply if I knew how to send escape via
the echo command, but otherwise, create a file called normal.c

------- cut here -------

#include <stdio.h>
main(){
char a[2];
a[0]=27;
a[1]=0;
printf("%s[0m",a);
exit(0);
}

------- cut here -------

then compile (gcc normal.c -o normal) and insert one line into your
.profile file:

PROMPT_COMMAND="/insert_path_here/normal"

replacing, of course, insert_path_here with the path for the normal video
program.  The little snippet of c code (if I didn't make any typos :-)
will automatically be executed by bash before every shell prompt.

Hope that helps,

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