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.