How can one modify PS1 to display time in right most corner?

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11811100

  •  24-06-2021
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Question

Currently it is displayed as follows

export PS1='${white}[\t] ${blue}\W:${red}$(__git_ps1)${white} \$ '

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I'd like to experiment with the same set up, but time displayed in the right most corner.

How can i modify my PS1 export for this to happen please?

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Solution

Don't think there's any way to right justify items on the prompt using PS1 in bash (pretty sure there's easy ways to do this in zsh though). You can try writing a function for the PROMPT_COMMAND environment variable and have it print the time with right justify, something along the lines of:

print_pre_prompt ()
{
    TIME=`date +%H:%M`
    printf "\e[1;37m%$(($COLUMNS))s" "${TIME}"
}
PROMPT_COMMAND=print_pre_prompt

Here, the \e[1;37m is the "white" color.

OTHER TIPS

Is this your output prompt looking for ?

export PS1="\u@\w [\$(date +%k:%M:%S)]> "

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