On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 03:00:50PM -0400, Greg Larkin wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Chad Perrin wrote: > | This might be slightly off-topic, I suppose -- but since (t)csh is the > | default shell for FreeBSD, I figured this might be a good place to ask. > | > | I'm aware of the %T option for showing 24-hour time in my tcsh prompt, > | but it doesn't do exactly what I would like. Inserting a call to the > | date command so I can have the exact formatting I want appears to fail by > | only calculating the time once, and showing the same time every time the > | prompt appears -- which means that, several hours later, I'm still > | looking at the time from when the shell instance was started. > | > | The prompt setting using the date command that I used is as follows: > | > | set prompt = "[`date +'%H%M'`] %~%# " > | > ... > | There must be some way to do this. Right? > | > > Hi Chad, > > Right! Try this: > > set prompt=' % ' > alias precmd 'printf "[%s]" "`date +'%H%M'`"'
Most excellent! Thank you. -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] Peter Norvig: "Use the most natural notation available to solve the problem, and then worry about writing an interpreter for that notation."
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