On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 04:35:09PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > I want to have a script, to change between a few prompts per the arg > supplied. This is so I can quickly change from my glorious > bells-and-whistles prompt to a plain prompt (eg for cut and paste to > debian-user, just "$ " or "# " depending on current user) to a > timestamped prompt (when I have some long-running process, and I want > to see when it finished) etc. Not a direct solution to your problem, but zsh has a "prompt" command which will allow you to install a new prompt theme with a single command. For day-to-day work zsh is comparable to bash (the learning curve is much smaller than between e.g. bash and tcsh), but there's a lot of extra power available built-in.
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