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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting PS1 with date stamp included in prompt Post 35133 by kymberm on Friday 28th of March 2003 03:09:02 PM
Old 03-28-2003
Eureka!

Decided to split it up in 2 parts. AND IT WORKED. For anyone else's info, i did this in my .profile (and be careful of the ` vs ' marks, that trips me up sometimes)

MYTIME=`date +%H:%M`
PS1='[Name::'\$MYTIME\$PWD']$>'

notice the ' vs ` for the date and PS1 commands. I did this because I found myself constantly typing date at the prompt to look at log files and such and when they were created, which is most current vs what time the server has, blah blah. So, for anyone's interest, that's how it can be done.

Thanks!
 

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NAME
nwfstime - Display / Set a NetWare server's date and time SYNOPSIS
nwfstime [ -h ] [ -S server ] [ -U user name ] [ -P password | -n ] [ -C ] [ -s ] DESCRIPTION
nwfstime displays a NetWare server's date and time. You can also set a NetWare server's date and time from the local time. OPTIONS
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