[Linux-disciples] Including the results of a program in a prompt

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 10:29:34AM -0500, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> You need to escape the backticks, if you want them to be evaluated every 
> time the prompt is displayed, i.e.:

Ah. Makes total sense, and I figured something like that was
going on.

> personally, I would just do:
> 
> PS1="(\T) \u@\h:\w\$ "

Well, I was only using the :%S (number of seconds) to get an
immediate test of whether the time was refreshing. What I
actually wanted to use was %H:%M (hours:minutes), and I
suspect $(date +%H:%M) is the best way to do that.

Exactly my problem, and exactly your response, are here:

http://shorl.com/fupigrimedotra

It's surprising how often I forget to Google when I have a
problem.

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