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Custom shell prompt tips and tricks?

Recently I stumbled over an article, about how to customize your shell prompt. What really surprised me, is that it lacked one of the most basic tips I learned nearly 20 years back: Always display a timestamp in the prompt, to be able to check how long a process is running or when it ended. (Don’t need it daily, but every so...

multicorn,

If you like customizing your shell, there are really cool things one can do with zsh.

I have mine set up with suggestions to complete the name of the program, or even command line options for it.

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