Re: Proposed Prompt Escapes

[Ángel González]

Dennis Williamson wrote:
> Do you mean something like:
> 
> PS1='$SECONDS '

Not exactly. $SECONDS is the number of seconds since the shell was
started. I am interested in the seconds elapsed by the last command.

It is a hacky solution, but it could be done with:
> PS1=''; PROMPT_COMMAND='printf "%s " $SECONDS; SECONDS=0'



> (along with shopt -o promptvars)

For anyone trying to follow this, the above line should have been 
shopt -s promptvars (promptvars option is set by default)

Best regards