On 07/09/2010 09:22 PM, Clark J. Wang wrote: > For example, in the interactive shell, I want to track the time when every > inputted command is invoked. So I want to run a `date' command before > actually invoking the inputted command. For now I have to do like this: > > $ date; command1 > $ date; command2 > > Is there an easy way to do that?
Not quite before the command, but it is very easy to include $(date) as part of PS1 to have a timestamp listed in the prompt that is printed after every command. Except for long-running processes, there won't even be much difference in the timestamps. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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