Re: Proposed Prompt Escapes

[Dennis Williamson]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Ángel González <angel@16bits.net> wrote:

While we are talking about new prompt escapes, I would love to be able
to put in the prompt escapes elapsed time values from the previous
command, so prefixing with time(1) could be redundant (if the intended resource was provided as an escape).

Regards

Do you mean something like:

PS1='$SECONDS '

(along with shopt -o promptvars)

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