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From: mars@athena.mit.edu (Anita Hsiung)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: How do I ... (NOT a FAQ)
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.164033.8173@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 6 Mar 91 16:40:33 GMT
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In article <506@bria> uunet!bria!mike writes:
>In an article, mindcraft.com!ronnie (Ronnie Kon) writes:
>>In article <15710@mendip.UUCP> mhr@mendip.UUCP (Mark Hull-Richter) writes:
>>>
>>>How do I get the current time into my command line prompt?
>>>
>>	The construct `command` (note the use of accent grave (`) instead
>>of apostrophe (') inserts the result of the command into the command line.
    (stuff deleted)

>If you happened to read the question, the original poster was NOT asking how
>to insert the date into the command line -- he was asking how to insert the
>date in the command line *prompt*. 
>
>The answer is: it depends.  Some shells allow for the execution of embedded
>commands in a prompt; the Big Three (sh, csh, ksh) do not.

I use csh and it works for me.  My prompt definition looks like:

     set prompt="{!} (labs-n) `date +%T`${cwd}% "

resulting in:

     {43} (labs-n) 11:36:13 /usr/ahsiung%

Of course, the time only updates when I "cd".

-- Anita --