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CLI Magic: Use ANSI escape sequences to display a clock in your terminal

Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 123.200.203.202] on January 23, 2008 08:32 AM

I like it, but as others have noted, you can just customise your prompt by including the following in .bashrc. I'm fond of this one prompt:

PS1='\[\033[0;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[0m\] \[\033[0;33m\]\w\[\033[0m\]\n\[\033[1;33m\]\@\[\033[0m\]: '

It makes your prompt look like this...

user@host /current/path
07:20 PM: _

In three different colours too.

[[That's not what it looks like - I don't know why this post has no linebreaks.]]

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