On Fri 13 Dec 2019 at 14:36:09 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 07:20:53PM +0000, shirish शिरीष wrote:
> > Can somebody share how can I have a common prompt which is ok both by
> > bash and guake ?
>
> guake...? No idea what that is. apt-cache says it's a terminal. So
> I'm just going to assume that it works like any other terminal -- bash
> runs inside it. The prompt is displayed by bash. Therefore, the "guake"
> part of the question can be ignored.
>
> > which is not bad but I would like it to be something like this -
> >
> > shirish@debian 14 Dec 2019 00:43:04 :~$
>
> PS1='\u@\h $(date +"%d %b %Y %H:%M:%S") :\w\$ '
>
> Bash actually has the ability to show the time in the prompt without
> calling date(1), but you asked for an unusual date format, so I had to
> resort to the command substitution.
Could \D{format} not do that? Mind you, I'm surprised a prompt
needs the month and year. I would have thought the day of the
week would be more useful.
Cheers,
David.
