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How to show a running clock in terminal before the command prompt
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If you never need to use debian_chroot then it’s a handy place to put the time the command prompt was displayed by using:
export PROMPT_COMMAND='debian_chroot=$(date +%r)'
Type this in your terminal and watch your command prompt change with the time:
rick@alien:~$ export PROMPT_COMMAND='debian_chroot=$(date +%r)'
(09:14:59 PM)rick@alien:~$
After the time is set once, to get a running clock which updates every second use:
while sleep 1;do tput sc;tput cup $(($(tput lines)-1)) 1;printf `date +%r`;tput rc;done &
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