On Saturday 03 October 2009 19:51, Another Sillyname wrote:
> Hi
> 
> In bash using .bashrc I can use export PS1="[\t]" to give me the
> current time of any command prompt, useful if I need to run a command
> and then see what time it finished when I come back to that session.
> 
> However \t doesn't work in .profile (nor does \A or \T) and no amount
> of googling shows me an equivalent way of doing it, is it just a non
> starter in a busybox session (I'm running busybox on an embedded
> device I just aquired).

The \t is not implemented. If you want to do it, you need to add
relevant code in libbb/lineedit.c, in parse_and_put_prompt()
function.

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vda
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