rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) (03/07/91)
>How do I get the current time into my command line prompt? If you use tcsh, "%t" expands to the current time. My prompt is "%t %d %S[rbj@%m %h]%s ", which expands to "3:03pm /home/rbj [rbj@uunet 2] " withe the stuff in brackets in reverse video. >The answer is: it depends. Some shells allow for the execution of embedded >commands in a prompt; the Big Three (sh, csh, ksh) do not. Tsk Tsk. Page 79 of the KornShell book tells how to do this. I just typed it in and it works. -- [rbj@uunet 1] stty sane unknown mode: sane