The FreeBSD Diary

The research for this article was done by Hydro- and huey_ on Undernet's #FreeBSD IRC channel.

If you want a prompt that looks like:

[user@host] current/path(cmnd#)

Then use:

set prompt="%B[%n@%m]%b%/(%h): "

1. A nice prompt in xterm only! (or in smart ssh client, f.e. TeraTermPro):
   
   set ellipsis set prompt='%{^[]0;%n@%m, %.03, %P, CODE=%?^G%}%B%n%b@%m%B:%b%.02> '
   
   ^[ - Esc ^G - \007
   
   This prompt will change xterm title every time.
   
   Another prompt (huge and not useful): #set prompt='%{^[]0;%n@%m, %.03, %P, CODE=%?^G%}%{'"`echotc AF 2`"'%}%B%n%b%{'"`echotc AF 1`"'%}@%{'"`echotc AF 3`"'%}%m%B%{'"`echotc AF 5`"'%}:%{'"`echotc AF 7`"'%}%b%.02> '
2. timing... set time=(1 '%Uu %Ss %E %P %X+%Dk (max %Mk) %I+%Oio %Fpf(%Rmpf)+%Ww %rr+%ss SIG: %k %w+%c')
   
   Then try to execute long process (longer then 1 second and not `sleep 2` :-).
3. set savehist=(1000 merge)

   merge!

4. report about logging on/logging off other people...
   set log set watch=(1 any any) set who="%n@%M (%a)"
   
5. TAB-complete... more useful: bindkey ^I complete-word-fwd
   
6. And about ls (don't forget about "set term=xterm-color" if you use teraterm, scrt etc.):

   alias ll colorls -lAFG alias l colorls -aFG setenv LSCOLORS "3x5x2x3x1x464301060203"

   (colorls in ports/packages)

   I use only colorls in shell.