Meaningful PS1 on Bourne shells [was: Re: zfs newbie]
David Christensen
dpchrist at holgerdanske.com
Wed Sep 15 19:28:00 UTC 2021
On 9/15/21 11:28 AM, David Christensen wrote:
> PS1=\n\D{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S} dpchrist@\h \w\n\$
>
>
> (Looking at the value of PS1, it is curious that I hard-coded the
> username as 'dpchrist' rather than using a '\u' special character. I
> have been using the same PS1 on multiple platforms and with multiple
> Bourne-like shells for many years; one of them must have been lacking
> this feature.)
The username is not hard-coded -- it is set from the USER environment
variable in my Bourne shell profile:
2021-09-15 12:20:50 dpchrist at dipsy ~
$ grep PS1 .profile
export PS1='\n\D{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S} '${USER}'@\h \w\n\$ '
David
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