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How would I put the date within my PS1 command for my shell prompt? I have it set to: PS1='$>' I tried PS1='$>' but that didn't work.

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would someone please explain in detail, how does the code below change the color or bash prompt $ echo $PS1 :\033 are there other tricks like above?

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Hi, I'm using the ksh shell and I'd like to set my PS1 prompt on an AIX system to include, amongst ther things, the current time. This was my best effort: export PS1=$(date -u +%R)'${ME}:${PWD}# ' but this only sets the time to the value when PS1 is defined and the time value doesn't...

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Hi, I'm trying to find out if there is a way to get a timestamp on my Solaris root shell prompt using /sbin/sh? I'm trying to archive something in line with the following: 12:34:26 root@server # 12:34:28 root@server # 12:34:28 root@server # ls ... 12:34:30 root@server # I know there...

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Greetings! I have to work with a NFS user id between two hosts: A running Ksh 93 and B running pdksh 88. My problem has to do with the custom prompt I created on A: it works like a charm and display colors: PS1="$'\E But I switch over to B, it all goes to hell (private info...

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[Solved] Help needed to have changing value to the command prompt string variable PS1

Hi, I am using git bash terminal window to do git operations. I have set the prompt string variable PS1 in the ~/.bashrc file as follows: export PS1=" " This is intended to show me the current git branch's name which is active as part of the prompt string. But, the problem is when I do a git...

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I have coded PS1 as shown, producing the following result when writing on the command line ┌─ cdl └──╼ make tracepdf2d If I make an error in the command an ✗ is printed ┌─ ✗ cdl └──╼ ls-a ls-a: command not found My problem is that if I just press enter, I do not want to have the...

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Why is my PS1 breaking my prompt?

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PS1 (Prompt character) appearing in cat output

RedHat Linux 5.8/Korn Shell I have text file name /etc/oracle/config.loc. It has the following text #Device/file getting replaced by device +OCR ocrconfig_loc=+DATA ocrmirrorconfig_loc=+OCRBut , when I open this file using cat , the PS1 character (for prompt) appears as the last character...

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NDB_CPCD(1)						       MySQL Database System						       NDB_CPCD(1)

NAME

       ndb_cpcd - automate testing of NDB (development use only)

SYNOPSIS

       ndb_cpcd options

DESCRIPTION

       A utility having this name was formerly part of an internal automated test framework used in testing and debugging MySQL Cluster. It was
       deprecated in MySQL Cluster NDB 7.0, and removed from MySQL Cluster distributions provided by Oracle beginning with MySQL Cluster NDB
       7.2.1.

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       For more information, please refer to the MySQL Reference Manual, which may already be installed locally and which is also available online
       at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/.

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