From: "Benjamin R. Haskell" <zsh@benizi.com>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: volume label in prompt?
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 09:44:46 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1210260941250.24430@hp.internal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5089C812.6030504@eastlink.ca>
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.
--
Best,
Ben
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-26 13:50 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 [this message]
2012-10-26 15:44 ` Ray Andrews
2012-10-26 6:06 ` (AA) example Bart Schaefer
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