This prompt function does several things, it puts the username,
computername, current directory, time, and system uptime in the title, and
it puts the username, computername, and current directory in the prompt. It
also uses the unix/linux convention of substituting ~ for the home directory
(which you can CD to or copy to, etc. in powershell, e.g. "cd ~\"). Thought
someone might enjoy this. Oh, one more thing, the special ASCII characters
require consolas font be used.

function prompt
{
$computer = get-WMIObject -class Win32_OperatingSystem -computer "."
$lastboottime=[System.Management.ManagementDateTimeconverter]::ToDateTime($computer.lastbootuptime)
$uptime=$(get-date)-$lastboottime

$upstr="$([datetime]::now.toshorttimestring())
$([datetime]::now.toshortdatestring()) up $($uptime.days) days,
$($uptime.hours) hours, $($uptime.minutes) minutes"

$dir = $pwd.path

if ($dir -like "$env:userprofile*")
{
$dir=$dir.tolower().replace("$env:userprofile".tolower(),'~')
}

$retstr = "$env:username@$($env:computername.tolower())?$dir"

if ($globalriginaltitle -eq $null) {$globalriginaltitle =
[console]::title}

[console]::title = "$globalriginaltitle ? $retstr ? $upstr"

return "$retstr?"
}

Guess I need unicode, and that should be 'a neat prompt function I created'
oops

function prompt
{
$computer = get-WMIObject -class Win32_OperatingSystem -computer "."
$lastboottime=[System.Management.ManagementDateTimeconverter]::ToDateTime($computer.lastbootuptime)
$uptime=$(get-date)-$lastboottime

$upstr="$([datetime]::now.toshorttimestring())
$([datetime]::now.toshortdatestring()) up $($uptime.days) days,
$($uptime.hours) hours, $($uptime.minutes) minutes"

$dir = $pwd.path

if ($dir -like "$env:userprofile*")
{
$dir=$dir.tolower().replace("$env:userprofile".tolower(),'~')
}

$retstr = "$env:username@$($env:computername.tolower())â—�$dir"

if ($globalriginaltitle -eq $null) {$globalriginaltitle =
[console]::title}

[console]::title = "$globalriginaltitle ♦ $retstr ♦ $upstr"

return "$retstrâ–º"
}

On Sep 17, 3:49Â*pm, "James Gentile" <n...@newsgroup> wrote:

> Guess I need unicode, and that should be 'a neat prompt function I created'
> oops
>
> function prompt
> {
> Â* Â* Â* Â* $computer = get-WMIObject -class Win32_OperatingSystem -computer "."
> Â* Â* Â* Â* $lastboottime=[System.Management.ManagementDateTimeconverter]::ToDateTime($ computer.lastbootuptime)
> Â* Â* Â* Â* $uptime=$(get-date)-$lastboottime
>
> Â* Â* Â* Â* $upstr="$([datetime]::now.toshorttimestring())
> $([datetime]::now.toshortdatestring()) up $($uptime.days) days,
> $($uptime.hours) hours, $($uptime.minutes) minutes"
>
> Â* Â* Â* Â* $dir = $pwd.path
>
> Â* Â* Â* Â* if ($dir -like "$env:userprofile*")
> Â* Â* Â* Â* {
> Â* Â* Â* Â* Â* Â* Â* Â* $dir=$dir.tolower().replace("$env:userprofile".tolower(),'~')
> Â* Â* Â* Â* }
>
> Â* Â* Â* Â* $retstr = "$env:username@$($env:computername.tolower())â—�$dir"
>
> Â* Â* Â* Â* if ($globalriginaltitle -eq $null) {$globalriginaltitle =
> [console]::title}
>
> Â* Â* Â* Â* [console]::title = "$globalriginaltitle ♦ $retstr ♦ $upstr"
>
> Â* Â* Â* Â* return "$retstrâ–º"
>
>
>
> }

It seems like a couple of these variables should probably be declared
in the profile instead of the prompt function. For example, it's
probably inefficient to query WMI every time the prompt function is
called.

On Sep 17, 6:40*pm, lemur <gu...@newsgroup-email.com> wrote:

> Neat ideas...
>
> I remember having UNIX commands on my pc. *Forget what the name of the
> program was. *Here is something interesting...
>
> 'Linux Desktop Environment Coming to Windows Vista - In the future;
> Windows XP support available for now - Softpedia'
> (http://news.softpedia.com/news/Linux...t-Coming-to-Wi...)
>
> --
> lemur
>
> Please click on rep icon if I've been of any help.
> Thanks!

Chances are, you're thinking of Cygwin. You can also get a lot of the
unix commands compiled for windows off of the Internet without Cygwin.

tojo2000 wrote:

> On Sep 17, 6:40 pm, lemur <gu...@newsgroup-email.com> wrote:

>> Neat ideas...
>> I remember having UNIX commands on my pc. Forget what the name of the
>> program was. Here is something interesting...
>> 'Linux Desktop Environment Coming to Windows Vista - In the future;
>> Windows XP support available for now - Softpedia'
>> (http://news.softpedia.com/news/Linux...t-Coming-to-Wi...)
>>

>
> Chances are, you're thinking of Cygwin. You can also get a lot of the
> unix commands compiled for windows off of the Internet without Cygwin.

Also the MKS Toolkit.
Bruce Payette worked for MKS at one time.

- Larry

Ok, I fixed it:


$global:wmilocalcomputer = get-WMIObject -class
Win32_OperatingSystem -computer "."
$global:lastboottime=[System.Management.ManagementDateTimeconverter]::ToDateTime($wmilocalcomputer.lastbootuptime)


function prompt
{
$up=$(get-date)-$lastboottime

$upstr="$([datetime]::now.toshorttimestring())
$([datetime]::now.toshortdatestring()) up $($up.days) days, $($up.hours)
hours, $($up.minutes) minutes"

$dir = $pwd.path

if ($dir -like "$env:userprofile*")
{
$dir=$dir.remove(0,$env:userprofile.length).insert(0,'~')
}

$retstr = "$env:username@$($env:computername.tolower())â—�$dir"

if ($globalriginaltitle -eq $null) {$globalriginaltitle =
[console]::title}

[console]::title = "$globalriginaltitle ♦ $retstr ♦ $upstr"

return "$retstrâ–º"
}

"lemur" <guest@newsgroup-email.com> wrote in message news:c22bca53b6bd954337a3eb318611fa64@newsgroup-gateway.com...

>
> Neat ideas...
>
> I remember having UNIX commands on my pc. Forget what the name of the
> program was. Here is something interesting...
>
> 'Linux Desktop Environment Coming to Windows Vista - In the future;
> Windows XP support available for now - Softpedia'
> (http://news.softpedia.com/news/Linux...ta-77136.shtml)

Depending on your OS you may already have it available
as a subsystem...

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../cc772343.aspx

(Microsoft Search for
SUA
)


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