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I'd like to know how to set in .bashrc file to print the last login time of users when logging into another user in terminal. I do know that with who or last, but I'd like something a little more customizable that can be formatted and only runs once per login, preferably to show in a format like so;

last login time [ 2015-02-13 @ 3:50:00 AM ]

user@host /path/dir/here $

that gets printed to the terminal screen before the bash prompt, and if possible to set and format color on the time and date stamp. How can I achieve this to customizing the bash prompt output?

(Just as a guideline, the format is not exactly the same):

ll=$(last -1 -R  $USER | head -1 | cut -c 20-)

export PS1="last login time [$ll]"'nh:W$ '

Edit: if you want last information to be printed only once (wise idea)

ll=$(last -1 -R  $USER | head -1 | cut -c 20-)

echo "last login time [$ll]"    # adjust to your login messages, fortunes, etc

export PS1='nh:W$ '         # replace by your favorite prompt

Try putting the following line into your /etc/profile file ...

echo "your last login:  `last -1 -R $USER` "

This will limit the results to 1 line and report the user's last login, during the login process. Afterwards it will not re-occur until the next login.