If the possible is following, could someone help me do it?
I want to customize the Windows 7 command prompt (cmd.exe) so that instead of it showing C:\Users\Blah> , it shows
[HH:MM] text@text ~ $
Essentially, I want to make it look like it's Arch Linux but it's not.
/halp
As foxidrive says in comment, the built in help documentation for PROMPT describes the available meta characters for the PROMPT command.
There is no direct way to get time as HH:MM. You will have to use backspaces to strip off the minutes and seconds. Also, hours less than 10 may have a leading space instead of a leading zero, depending on regional settings.
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prompt [$T$H$H$H$H$H$H] text@text ~ $$
%time% format so it could be set to HH:MM and then use %time% in the prompt.
Jan 16, 2014 at 5:58
$T output, so I updated my answer a bit. But I don't think it is possible to get a dynamic time value in the prompt using %time% or !time! - you must use $T.
[Blah] text@text Users/Username/Desktop ~ $ so there is no C:\, and the \'s have turned into /'s. If there is no way to do this in just CMD, could I somehow do this with a batch file?
Jan 16, 2014 at 6:22
Try Clink which supports customizing the prompt with Lua scripts, as well as adding Bash-style line editing, completion, and history just like Arch Linux.
promptcommand. Typehelp promptfor syntax