> On 2020-04-11 at 18:04 +0200, gentoo_eshoes wrote: >> $ echo ${PS1@A} >> declare -x PS1=$'\\\n-----------\\n\\\n\\[\\a\\]\\\n\\[\\e[1;37m\ >> \e[42m\\]\\u@\\H\\[\\e[0m\\] \\\n\\[\\033[1;30m\\]$(date "+%Y/%m/%d % >> H:%M:%S")\\[\\033[0m\\] \\\n\\[\\e[0;37m\\]\\s\\V t:\\l j:\\j \\\nd: >> ${SHLVL} pp:${PPID} p:$$ ut`cat /proc/uptime | cut -f1 -d.`\\[\\e[0m\ >> \]\\n\\\n\\[\\e[0;37m\\]!\\!\\[\\e[0m\\] \\\n\\[\\033[0;36m\\]\\#\\[\ >> \033[0m\\] \\\n$(evalexitcode "${__earlyec[@]}" ) \\\n\\[\\e[0m\ >> \]$(uname -r) $(uname -v)\n$(ps_lepath "\\w")\\[ \\033];\\w\\a\\]\n\ >> \[\\e[1;32m\\]\\$\\[\\e[0m\\] \\\n' > > > That was an⦠'interesting' prompt. > > Note that there are several subprocesses that you could easily avoid: > > $(date "+%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S") is equivalent to \D{%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S} > > > `cat /proc/uptime | cut -f1 -d.` this could be simplified to `cut -f1 -d. > /proc/uptime` > it may be replaced with just builtins by `uptime=$(</proc/uptime); builtin > echo ${uptime/.*}` > > $(uname -r) $(uname -v) is equivalent to $(uname -r -v) I wonder why you > need these fairly static values on every prompt line, though.
More generally, a loadable module command can do whatever you want, and that's going to be more efficient than any subprocess fork and exec.