# Asterisk Project : CLI Prompt

Added by mdavenport , edited by russell on Aug 30, 2010

##### Changing the CLI Prompt

The CLI prompt is set with the ASTERISK_PROMPT UNIX environment variable that you set from the Unix shell before starting Asterisk

You may include the following variables, that will be replaced by the current value by Asterisk:

- %d - Date (year-month-date)
- %s - Asterisk system name (from asterisk.conf)
- %h - Full hostname
- %H - Short hostname

- %t - Time
- %u - Username
- %g - Groupname
- %% - Percent sign

- %# - '#' if Asterisk is run in console mode, '' if running as remote console
- %Cn[;n] - Change terminal foreground (and optional background) color to specified A full list of colors may be found in include/asterisk/term.h

On systems which implement getloadavg(3), you may also use:

- %l1 - Load average over past minute
- %l2 - Load average over past 5 minutes
- %l3 - Load average over past 15 minutes