[COFF] What is your prompt?

Greg 'groggy' Lehey grog at lemis.com
Sun Dec 26 13:54:42 AEST 2021


On Saturday, 25 December 2021 at 20:29:31 -0700, COFF wrote:
> On 12/25/21 4:19 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> Like you, I find user, system and cwd important, but also
>> the tty.
>
> I'm curious, what use do you have for the TTY information?

If I have a process misbehaving on that tty, I can use the information
to run ps against the tty.  It's not exactly a daily occurrence, but
it's convenient when it's needed.

Greg
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