Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Edit Bash Prompt

Edit .bash_profile:
Between the quotation marks, you can add the following lines to customize your Terminal prompt:
  • \d – Current date
  • \t – Current time
  • \h – Host name
  • \# – Command number
  • \u – User name
  • \W – Current working directory (ie: Desktop/)
  • \w – Current working directory, full path (ie: /Users/Admin/Desktop)
So, let’s say you want your Terminal prompt to display the User, followed by the hostname, followed by the directory, the .bashrc entry would be:
export PS1="\u@\h\w$ "

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