Dennis Williamson wrote: > Do you mean something like: > > PS1='$SECONDS '
Not exactly. $SECONDS is the number of seconds since the shell was started. I am interested in the seconds elapsed by the last command. It is a hacky solution, but it could be done with: > PS1=''; PROMPT_COMMAND='printf "%s " $SECONDS; SECONDS=0' > (along with shopt -o promptvars) For anyone trying to follow this, the above line should have been shopt -s promptvars (promptvars option is set by default) Best regards
