Timestamp in gnome-terminal?

JRR883 · 06-24-2007, 04:20 PM

Does anyone know of a way to put a timestamp in gnome-terminal? Sometimes I like to know how long my fabulous new Thinkpad T60p takes to complete tasks without having to stare at the clock.

dive · 06-24-2007, 05:10 PM

You could change your prompt to show time:

Code:

grey="\[\033[0;37m\]"
white="\e[01;37m"
PS1="${white}\w \@ ;) ${grey}"

PS1 is the variable that holds your bash prompt style and \@ is the symbol for the time. Put this in your ~/.bashrc

JRR883 · 06-24-2007, 05:36 PM

I added those lines to my ~/.bashrc, all it did was turn the text that usually shows user@desktop:~$ white, and the input text grey. I also tried adding it to my /root/.bashrc to no avail.

tredegar · 06-25-2007, 01:11 AM

Try time command
eg:

Code:

# time locate -u

real    0m0.398s
user    0m0.268s
sys     0m0.128s
#

dive · 06-25-2007, 04:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JRR883

I added those lines to my ~/.bashrc, all it did was turn the text that usually shows user@desktop:~$ white, and the input text grey. I also tried adding it to my /root/.bashrc to no avail.

Strange. Maybe Ubuntu uses a different set of vars for PS1 then...

Google for 'ubuntu bash prompt' maybe

*Edit: just found this. May be worth asking here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=31247

JRR883 · 06-25-2007, 06:47 AM

I figured it out. I edited my .bashrc for root and user to include \T in PS1. I changed the line defining PS1 (line 29 in Ubuntu Feisty) from

Code:

PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$

to

Code:

PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\T_\u@\h:\w\$

. Now my prompt displays 06:41:24_me@riley-laptop:~$. Here are the variables for the different time displays:

# \t the current time in 24-hour HH:MM:SS format
# \T the current time in 12-hour HH:MM:SS format
# \@ the current time in 12-hour am/pm format
# \A the current time in 24-hour HH:MM format

Thanks guys, and I hope this helps anyone else with the problem.