Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 21:05:35 -0700 From: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: "J.S." <johann@broadpark.no> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Shell prompt contest Message-ID: <200201030405.g0345Zx30208@fedde.littleton.co.us> In-Reply-To: <20020102150618.04ae22ff.johann@broadpark.no>
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On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 15:06:18 +0100 "J.S." wrote:
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| Let's see who has the prettiest one :-)
|
| -- LET THE GAMES BEGIN!
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It's not the prettiest thing around but it has some useful features for
me.
case `uname` in
BSD/OS | FreeBSD | Linux)
host=`hostname`
PS1="$host $ "
;;
HP-UX | SunOS)
host=$(hostname)
PS1=${host%%.*}' ${PWD##*/} $ '
;;
esac
case $SHELL in
*bash)
if expr X$TERM : Xxterm
then
PS1='\[^[[1m\]\$ \t \u@$host:\w\[^[[0m\]\n'
PS1="\[^[]0;$host^G\]$PS1"
fi
;;
esac
This generates a prompt that looks as follows.
$ 20:53:07 cfedde@boing.fedde.littleton.co.us:~
Yes there is a carrage return in it. And nothing on the "typing line".
It uses bold text in an xterm and it updates the window title with the
current host name. The user@host:directory format provides ample cut and
paste fodder for scp, ftp, emails and the like.
The time stamp lets me keep track of how long some commands take.
--
Chris Fedde
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