Re: how to have a common prompt in bash and guake so I can view date and time as part of prompt ?

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

On Fri 13 Dec 2019 at 14:36:09 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 07:20:53PM +0000, shirish शिरीष wrote:
> > Can somebody share how can I have a common prompt which is ok both by
> > bash and guake ?
> 
> guake...?  No idea what that is.  apt-cache says it's a terminal.  So
> I'm just going to assume that it works like any other terminal -- bash
> runs inside it.  The prompt is displayed by bash.  Therefore, the "guake"
> part of the question can be ignored.
> 
> > which is not bad but I would like it to be something like this -
> > 
> > shirish@debian 14 Dec 2019 00:43:04 :~$
> 
> PS1='\u@\h $(date +"%d %b %Y %H:%M:%S") :\w\$ '
> 
> Bash actually has the ability to show the time in the prompt without
> calling date(1), but you asked for an unusual date format, so I had to
> resort to the command substitution.

Could \D{format} not do that? Mind you, I'm surprised a prompt
needs the month and year. I would have thought the day of the
week would be more useful.

Cheers,
David.