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[John Abreau]

On Mon, March 31, 2008 9:34 pm, Kenny Lussier said:

>
> It also has me thinking about different ways of manipulating the
> command prompt to add unique identifiers. I might cobble all f this
> together and make something useful after all! :-)
>

Here's how I've been setting mine:

    PS1='\033]0;\h:\w\007\r\u@\h:\w\n\t \d \$ '

This sets the xterm title to host:cwd, and the prompt to
user at host:cwd (newline) time weekday month day (uid==0?'#':'$')
The CWD often gets fairly long, so I spilled the date and time
onto a second line.

I typically have dozens of xterms open, many running screen
sessions with multiple screens, and some of them can sit idle
for months at a time. With this prompt, I can always tell
at a glance all the context I need about a particular session.




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