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Re: get output of a command in prompt



Le Sunday 17 September 2006, à 12:09:14PM -0500, Dan a écrit : 
> In the last episode (Sep 17), arno. said:
> > Le Saturday 16 September 2006, à 21:01:55PM +0200, Frank a écrit : 
> > > arno. <arno.@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > > [..get output of command into prompt..]
> > > 
> > > Take a look at this:
> > > 
> > > [snip]
> > > zsh% PS1='$(printf "%s: %d" "This is a one" 1)-%% '
> > > $(printf ": /home/hawk" "This is a one" 1)-% setopt promptsubst 
> > > This is a one: 1-%
> > > [snap]
> > 
> > Yes, I've tried things like that, but the problem is that command output 
> > will be evaluated once, just when prompt is set up. It will not be 
> > evaluated each time prompt is displayed
> 
> That example does evalute the prompt each time it's printed; you just
> can't tell.  Try with a command that changes its output:
> 
> zsh% PS1='$(date)-%% ' ; setopt promptsubst
> Sun Sep 17 12:06:02 CDT 2006-% <press enter>
> Sun Sep 17 12:06:33 CDT 2006-% <press enter>
> Sun Sep 17 12:06:34 CDT 2006-% 
> 
> Of course in this example you'd be better off using zsh's builtin
> date-printing prompt escapes, but you get the idea.

Oups,
looks like I did it wrong before.
It works now
thanx a lot

arno

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