Unsurprisingly, in this day and age of Googlemania(tm), I came across a Tcsh built-in variable set in a recent quest for leveraging the most out of my shell prompt. Not having touched this in ages makes you take too many basic capabilities for granted...and so as Cupid's arrow hit me I, in turn, hit Google.
Since I use Tcsh and already have a reasonably useful prompt, I wanted to add a time stamp to it.
Previously looking like this:
isaac@aisap1-1:/export/home/isaac>
...and being defined as:
set prompt="`whoami`@`hostname`:`pwd`> ".. I really did want a time stamp in there...somewhere.
Giving a few whirls with the /bin/date command made me realize that there must be a better way.
And as it turns out there is and its only 2 bytes long: %t
What I really wanted was something that looks like this:
isaac@unixman:/export/home/isaac: 12:20pm
So, I've added %B and %b around %t, and now my prompt in my .cshrc file is defined as:
set prompt="`/usr/ucb/whoami`@`hostname`:`pwd`:%B %t %b> "
You can also use %T, instead of %t, to change time format of the time printed.
Cool, huh ?
set prompt = "%n@%m:%/:%B %t %b> "
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Posted by Peter Tribble on February 14, 2005 at 06:18 PM EST #
Posted by isaac on February 14, 2005 at 07:57 PM EST #
The %n, %m and %/ stuff is a lot better than backquoted commands IMHO. A lot of unnecessary process forking is saved when they are used :-)
My own tcsh prompt stuff is:
Posted by Giorgos Keramidas on February 15, 2005 at 05:24 AM EST #
Posted by fdasfdsa on October 12, 2006 at 09:18 AM EDT #