Date: 02 Jan 2002 15:36:48 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: "J.S." <johann@broadpark.no> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Shell prompt contest Message-ID: <l8ell8ba0f.ll8@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20020102150618.04ae22ff.johann@broadpark.no> References: <20020102150618.04ae22ff.johann@broadpark.no>
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"J.S." <johann@broadpark.no> writes:
> Let's see who has the prettiest one :-)
Everyone so far seems to think he's asking for the prettiest prompt code,
and have not shown their prompts. Let's see both, please.
$ cd /root/bin
## 15:25:25 ## username @ /root/bin ## Wed 2 Jan 2002 PST
$ next-command....
In pdksh (two lines):
PS1='$(set -A PS1 $(date); echo "## ${PS1[3]} ## $(id -un) @ $PWD ## ${PS1[0]} ${PS1[2]} ${PS1[1]} ${PS1[5]} ${PS1[4]}
$ ")'
One of the best things about using a commmand line interface is having
a transcript of one's activity, which is greatly aided by having the
time/date in the prompt. Interpretation of the transcript is also aided
by having the user name and PWD listed. If I didn't do so much in
XEmacs shells, I'd probably add some color too.
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