How to show time next to the command line in terminal/console

Question

When I execute command line (linux) I want to know what time there were executed when I scroll up my terminal window. I saw this once setup in linux environment but how to do that?

Answer 1

You need to set your prompt variable (PS1). Something like the following should get you going:

<~/temp>$ export PS1="[\$(date +%k:%M)]> "
[12:16]>