On 19/1/21 7:18 am, David Christensen wrote:
I set PS1 in my Bash profile to print a blank line, print useful contextual information, and then print the prompt. This makes it easier to read, understand, and/or reproduce the session:2021-01-18 12:01:50 root@tinkywinky ~ # cat /etc/debian_version 9.13 2021-01-18 12:13:41 root@tinkywinky ~ # uname -a Linux tinkywinky 4.9.0-13-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.228-1 (2020-07-05) x86_64 GNU/Linux 2021-01-18 12:13:43 root@tinkywinky ~ # grep PS1 .profile export PS1='\n\D{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S} '${USER}'@\h \w\n\$ '
Thanks for this. I'll just add that if you make this change, run source .profile to activate it. -- Keith Bainbridge [email protected]
