Reputation: 1765
You can use \d
in the your PS1 configuration to display a long date ie. Tues 18 May
, but how can I get it to display it in a format like 18.05.2012
for example?
Upvotes: 48
Views: 27232
Reputation: 261
Rather than telling the shell to execute the date command each time, you can use the built-in format:
\D{%F %T}
to give you date and time in this in format: YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss
Upvotes: 26
Reputation: 1359
Use \D{format}
where format
is a strftime
format code.
For example:
$ export PS1='\D{%d.%m.%Y}$ '
08.02.2012$
Upvotes: 21
Reputation: 54621
Try including \D{%d.%m.%Y}
. You can use any time format supported by strftime(3)
.
Upvotes: 83
Reputation: 570
I'm not sure how to apply this to PS1 specifically (maybe someone can edit this question to replace this part with the best working bit from other questions).
BUT you can get short date formatted according to your current locale with:
date +%x
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 51
you can try this that display time:
$ PS1="\n\t \u@\h:\w# "
08:18:57 user@localhost:/home/user#
Upvotes: 5