formatting the time in tcsh prompt

[Greg Larkin]

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Chad Perrin wrote:
| This might be slightly off-topic, I suppose -- but since (t)csh is the
| default shell for FreeBSD, I figured this might be a good place to ask.
|
| I'm aware of the %T option for showing 24-hour time in my tcsh prompt,
| but it doesn't do exactly what I would like.  Inserting a call to the
| date command so I can have the exact formatting I want appears to fail by
| only calculating the time once, and showing the same time every time the
| prompt appears -- which means that, several hours later, I'm still
| looking at the time from when the shell instance was started.
|
| The prompt setting using the date command that I used is as follows:
|
|   set prompt = "[`date +'%H%M'`] %~%# "
|
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| There must be some way to do this.  Right?
|

Hi Chad,

Right!  Try this:

set prompt=' % '
alias precmd 'printf "[%s]" "`date +'%H%M'`"'

Best regards,
Greg
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Greg Larkin
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