Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:36:21 -0600 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: formatting the time in tcsh prompt Message-ID: <20080730023246.GE36138@kokopelli.hydra> In-Reply-To: <488F68E2.2090409@FreeBSD.org> References: <20080729181904.GA35291@kokopelli.hydra> <488F68E2.2090409@FreeBSD.org>
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--dgjlcl3Tl+kb3YDk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 03:00:50PM -0400, Greg Larkin wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 >=20 > Chad Perrin wrote: > | This might be slightly off-topic, I suppose -- but since (t)csh is the > | default shell for FreeBSD, I figured this might be a good place to ask. > | > | I'm aware of the %T option for showing 24-hour time in my tcsh prompt, > | but it doesn't do exactly what I would like. Inserting a call to the > | date command so I can have the exact formatting I want appears to fail = by > | only calculating the time once, and showing the same time every time the > | prompt appears -- which means that, several hours later, I'm still > | looking at the time from when the shell instance was started. > | > | The prompt setting using the date command that I used is as follows: > | > | set prompt =3D "[`date +'%H%M'`] %~%# " > | > ... > | There must be some way to do this. Right? > | >=20 > Hi Chad, >=20 > Right! Try this: >=20 > set prompt=3D' % ' > alias precmd 'printf "[%s]" "`date +'%H%M'`"' Most excellent! Thank you. --=20 Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] Peter Norvig: "Use the most natural notation available to solve the problem, and then worry about writing an interpreter for that notation." --dgjlcl3Tl+kb3YDk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkiP06UACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKVvrACdGhyymnvQ+na90WRj7NZ6ZTX9 WRUAn0HeJ64rXiwXgZ47Bz41j7VjwQB3 =iIBE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --dgjlcl3Tl+kb3YDk--
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