[ILUG] Bash Function

[Stephen Shirley]

On Thu, 31 May 2001, Ross Davis wrote:

>
>
> PROMPT_COMMAND="echo -e \"\033[0;32m[\$(date +%a\ %b\
> %e)](\$NEWDIRSIZE)[\$(jobs | wc -l | awk '{print \$1}')]\033[0m\""
>
Right. 2 things:

1. Instead of putting "[\$(jobs | wc -l | awk '{print \$1}')",
   you could put \j in your $PS1 prompt. From the bash manpage:

	\j     the  number of jobs currently managed by the shell

2. You could have a script running in the background that works out the
   dir size, and outputs it to a file like .homedirsize. You could then
   replace (\$NEWDIRSIZE) with (\$cat .homedirsize).

Steve
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