Hi, use PS1='\t' to do the stuff... Archan Paul Lateral Linux Labs archanp@xxxxxxxxxxx On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, you wrote: > On 15 Aug 2000, Toji Leon wrote: > > > Is there any way to display the current time as the > > command prompt? > > if PS1="`date "+%H:%M:%S"` \W" is written, it'll display > > only the login time(of course, along with the current dir). > > PS1='\T>' > > man bash for details >