Terminal Prompt

Post date: 25-Nov-2009 21:08:26

When I opened a terminal the prompt said

myname@mycomputer:~$

which is nice. But after changing the directory to Folder/Subfolder/Subsubfolder, it got messy,

myname@mycomputer:~/Folder/Subfolder/Subsubfolder$

Since the command pwd shows the path of current directory, I wanted to drop all this bothering information.

SOLUTION

Open the terminal (or if it's opened go to your folder)

$ cd

Open the .bashrc file

$ nano .bashrc

Look for the lines where

PS1='....some messy stuff here...'

is written, and erase the values \w from them.

Save the file (C-o) and exit (C-x).

Restart the terminal.

Enjoy!