[PLUG] Putting Date/Time in ksh prompt

Steve Bonds 1s7k8uhcd001 at sneakemail.com
Fri Sep 27 18:51:11 UTC 2002


On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Richard Langis richard.langis at sun.com wrote:

> Under Solaris 8 I had to change the first ticks to quotes, and then it 
> worked just fine:
> 
> $ ksh
> $ PS1='`date +%D\ %k:%M\>`'
> `date +%D %k:%M>
> `date +%D %k:%M>`PS1="`date +%D\ %k:%M\>`"
> 09/27/02 11:34>uname -a
> SunOS ht71-mon-2 5.8 Generic_108528-09 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60

That only gets evaluated once in the ancient HP ksh, so it shows the same
date forever.  ;-)

  -- Steve







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