Escape Reminder Expands to … \a Alert Alert (beep) \d Date Date in "Weekday Month Day" format (Sat Jan 15) \e Escape Esc Character \h Hostname Machine Name Without Domain (dhcp11) \H Hostname Full Machine Name (dhcp11.company) \j Jobs Number of Active Jobs \l Tty Current Terminal Name (ttyp1) \n Newline Newline \r Return Return by car \s Shell Name of the shell (basename $ 0) \t Time Time in 24-hour format HH: MM: SS \T Time 12-hour format HH: MM: SS \@ At Time in 12-hour format HH: MM am/pm \A At Time in 24-hour format HH:MM \u User Current user login \v Version Bash Version (2.00) \V Version Bash Version Subversion (2.00.0) \w Working Dir Current directory, full path ($PWD) \W Working Dir Current directory, only the last one (basename $PWD) \! History ico Current command number in history \# Number Current command number \$ ID > Show "#" if root, "$" if normal user \nnn Octal Character whose octal is nnn \\ Backslash Backslash \ literal \[ Escapes Starts a sequence of escapes (color coded type) \] Escapes Ends an escape sequence