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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


  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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