In this short post, I explain the various parts of the ksh93 version string and show you some useful things you can do with the version string.
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Bash has built-in support for extensive PS1 prompt customization and as a result many people customize their shell prompts. There is no equivalent built-in support for PS1 customization in ksh93 but such support can easily be added using discipline functions. In this post, I show you how to use a discipline function dynamically customize the title of your xterm window and your shell prompt Both bash and zsh shells support leading zeros in ranges: $ echo {1..10} 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 $ echo {01..10} 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 $ echo {001..010} 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 $ From the bash manpage section on brace expansion: Supplied integers may be prefixed with 0 to force each term to have the same width. When either x or y begins with a zero, the shell attempts to force all generated terms to contain the same number of digits, zero-padding where The word time is one of the bash shell reserved words. It is not a bash shell builtin. $ builtin time bash: builtin: time: not a shell builtin Bash does support the older Bourne shell keyword times as a builtin. This builtin prints out the user and system times used by the shell and its children. So where is the time reserved word used in the bash shell? It is primarily intended for printing pipeline timing statistics. From the current online bash documentation: The format for a pipeline is [time [-p]] [!] command1 [| command2 …] The output of each |
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