On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Ángel González <an...@16bits.net> wrote:

> While we are talking about new prompt escapes, I would love to be able
> to put in the prompt escapes elapsed time values from the previous
> command, so prefixing with time(1) could be redundant (if the intended
> resource was provided as an escape).
>
> Regards
>
>
Do you mean something like:

PS1='$SECONDS '

(along with shopt -o promptvars)

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