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BASH - Display date/time, hostname and current directory

Submitted by ravisagar on Mon, 04/28/2008 - 08:32.

To display date/time, hostname and current directory use the following command in your BASH prompt and press enter.

PS1="[\d \t \u@\h:\w ] $ "

After pressing enter your BASH prompt will look like this.

[Mon Apr 28 14:04:48 ravisa@incgnddw0062:/cygdrive/e/myfiles/] $

I used this command on Cygwin running on Window XP. The hostname and current directory will be different in your case.

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Current working directory in BASH

Submitted by ravisagar on Sun, 04/27/2008 - 06:31.

For all those newbies in the world of Linux here is a very useful linux command.

[root@localhost practice]# pwd
/home/ravi/windows/d/myfiles/tutorials/c++/practice

pwd will print the current working directory in the konsole.

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