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  • Customize Terminal Prompt

    In Mac OS X terminal, to customize the terminal prompt, edit the .bash_profile file to include the following line

    export PS1=""

    Following options are common:

    \d - current date - e.g. 11/09/2010
\w - full path to current working directory - e.g. ~/Users/Raj/Documents
\W - current working directory - e.g. Documents
\u - username -e.g. Admin

    I use the following for my prompt:

    export PS1="[\W$ ]"

    You can use any editor to edit the .bash_profile file. This file is located in your home directory (~)