From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: volume label in prompt?
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 08:44:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <508AAFC3.8070300@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1210260941250.24430@hp.internal>
On 26/10/12 06:44 AM, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2012, Ray Andrews wrote:
>
>> Gentlemen,
>>
>> I'm now running three machines here, each with several copies of
>> various linii available. It gets a bit confusing. I'm wondering if
>> there might be something I can add to my prompt that could help me
>> remind myself where I'm at. I'm open to any suggestions, but one
>> idea I had was something to identify the volume label of the current
>> root directory. That would do it if it can be done. Can it?
>
> Other people have offered some alternatives, but if you really want
> the volume label of the current root directory:
>
> volume_label=$(eval "$(blkid -o export $(mount | awk '$3 == "/" {
> print $1 }'))" ; printf "%s" $LABEL)
>
> `blkid` is a Linux thing, AFAIK.
>
Cool, thanks all.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-26 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-25 15:48 (AA) example Mark van Dijk
2012-10-25 16:27 ` Peter Stephenson
2012-10-25 23:15 ` volume label in prompt? Ray Andrews
2012-10-26 0:57 ` TJ Luoma
2012-10-26 2:42 ` Ray Andrews
2012-10-26 3:15 ` Alex Satrapa
2012-10-26 13:44 ` Benjamin R. Haskell
2012-10-26 15:44 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
2012-10-26 6:06 ` (AA) example Bart Schaefer
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