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Bash prompt keeps disappearing

I have a weird issue where my Bash prompt often completely disappears on a backspace. Doesn't make any sense to me, but it happens often: I can't really think of why this is happening. Am I ...
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Is there a way to push shell config information when SSHing to a host?

I know how to set the GNOME-terminals (or xterms!) prompt to green/red regarding the last exit code: vi .bashrc export PROMPT_COMMAND='PS1="` if [[ \$? = "0" ]]; then echo "\\[\\033[0;32m\\]"; else ...
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ssh behavior for root and non-root user

When I ssh as root to a remote machine, the command output looks like this: root@Machine:/current/path#: However, if it's a non-root user, all I see is: $ How can I get the same behavior as for ...