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Commands tagged prompt

Terminal - Commands tagged prompt - 8 results

export MYSQL_PS1="mysql://\u@\h:/\d - \R:\m:\s > "

2012-11-03 18:22:16

User: Testuser_01

Functions: export

Tags: mysql prompt verbose

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Change mysql prompt to be more verbose

You can put this into your shell sourced file like .bashrc or .zshrc to have a different mysql prompt.

See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/de/mysql-commands.html for more informations.

Beware that currently with mysql 5.5 the seconds are buggy and won't be displayed if you put this into a .cnf file. With the enironment variable this will work.

export PROMPT_COMMAND=$PROMPT_COMMAND'; export PWD_UPCASE="${PWD^^}"'; export PS1='C:${PWD_UPCASE//\\//\\\\}>'

2012-04-30 20:09:49

User: chungy

Functions: export

Tags: bash prompt ms-dos

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Pretend your shell is MS-DOS command.com

(This may be specific to bash only.) This transforms the current working directory to all uppercase characters and replaces forward slashes with backslashes, prepending the string with "C:" and appending a single ">". It serves no practical purpose, but may serve as a great practical joke if you can insert it to some victim's .bashrc :-)

export PS1="C:\$( pwd | sed 's:/:\\\\\:g' )> "

2010-03-29 13:55:52

User: unixmonkey9066

Functions: export

Tags: prompt dos joke

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Change prompt to MS-DOS one (joke)

This one eliminates the additional backslash at the end (which is not necessary)

export PS1="C:\$( pwd | sed 's:/:\\\\\\:g' )\\> "

2010-03-24 16:21:32

User: stick

Functions: export

Tags: prompt dos joke

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Change prompt to MS-DOS one (joke)

alias PS1="man bash | sed -n '/ASCII bell/,/end a sequence/p'"

This is sample output - yours may be different.

$ PS1
              \a     an ASCII bell character (07)
              \d     the  date in "Weekday Month Date" format (e.g., "Tue May
                     26")
              \D{format}
                     the format is passed to strftime(3) and  the  result  is
                     inserted into the prompt string; an empty format results
                     in a locale-specific time  representation.   The  braces
                     are required
              \e     an ASCII escape character (033)
              \h     the hostname up to the first '.'
              \H     the hostname
              \j     the number of jobs currently managed by the shell
              \l     the basename of the shell's terminal device name
              \n     newline
              \r     carriage return
              \s     the  name  of the shell, the basename of $0 (the portion
                     following the final slash)
              \t     the current time in 24-hour HH:MM:SS format
              \T     the current time in 12-hour HH:MM:SS format
              \@     the current time in 12-hour am/pm format
              \A     the current time in 24-hour HH:MM format
              \u     the username of the current user
              \v     the version of bash (e.g., 2.00)
              \V     the release  of  bash,  version  +  patch  level  (e.g.,
                     2.00.0)
              \w     the  current  working  directory, with $HOME abbreviated
                     with a tilde
              \W     the basename of  the  current  working  directory,  with
                     $HOME abbreviated with a tilde
              \!     the history number of this command
              \#     the command number of this command
              \$     if the effective UID is 0, a #, otherwise a $
              \nnn   the character corresponding to the octal number nnn
              \\     a backslash
              \[     begin a sequence of non-printing characters, which could
                     be used to embed a terminal control  sequence  into  the
                     prompt
              \]     end a sequence of non-printing characters

2010-01-15 23:39:28

User: haivu

Functions: alias

Tags: bash prompt ps1

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Command to Show a List of Special Characters for bash prompt (PS1)

I use this command (PS1) to show a list bash prompt's special characters. I tested it against A flavor of Red Hat Linux and Mac OS X

export PS1="\e[0;34m[\u\e[0;34m@\h[\e[0;33m\w\e[0m\e[0m\e[0;34m]#\e[0m "

2009-12-13 18:35:06

User: decept

Functions: export

Tags: color prompt hanukkah ps1

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hanukkah colored bash prompt

blue and yellow colored bash prompt for a Hanukkah celebration on your box

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PROMPT_COMMAND=command

2009-10-15 06:01:18

User: haivu

Tags: bash prompt

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Execute a command before display the bash prompt

For example, if you are the type who type ls very often, then

PROMPT_COMMAND=ls

will ls after every command you issue.

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export PS1='\[\033[0;35m\]\h\[\033[0;33m\] \w\[\033[00m\]: '

2009-03-18 22:05:48

User: kamiller

Functions: export

Tags: color prompt

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colored prompt

It colors the machine name and current directory different colors for easy viewing.

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