Pt. 2 Ch. 13 Customizing the Prompt

Question 1

ASCII bell. This makes the computer beep when it is encountered.

Answer 1

\a

Question 2

Current date in day, month, date format. For example, “Mon May
26.”

Answer 2

\d

Question 3

Hostname of the local machine minus the trailing domain name.

Answer 3

\h

Question 4

Full hostname.

Answer 4

\H

Question 5

Number of jobs running in the current shell session

Answer 5

\j

Question 6

Name of the current terminal device.

Answer 6

\l

Question 7

A newline character

Answer 7

\n

Question 8

A carriage return

Answer 8

\r

Question 9

Name of the shell program

Answer 9

\s

Question 10

Current time in 24-hour hours:minutes:seconds format.

Answer 10

\t

Question 11

Current time in 12-hour format.

Answer 11

\T

Question 12

Current time in 12-hour AM/PM format

Answer 12

\@

Question 13

Current time in 24-hour hours:minutes format.

Answer 13

\A

Question 14

Username of the current user

Answer 14

\u

Question 15

Version number of the shell.

Answer 15

\v

Question 16

Version and release numbers of the shell.

Answer 16

\V

Question 17

Name of the current working directory

Answer 17

\w

Question 18

Last part of the current working directory name.

Answer 18

\W

Question 19

History number of the current command.

Answer 19

!

Question 20

Number of commands entered during this shell session

Answer 20

#

Question 21

This displays a “$” character unless we have superuser privileges.
In that case, it displays a “#” instead.

Answer 21

$

Question 22

Signals the start of a series of one or more non-printing characters.
This is used to embed non-printing control characters that
manipulate the terminal emulator in some way, such as moving the
cursor or changing text col

Answer 22

[

Question 23

Signals the end of a non-printing character sequence.

Answer 23

]