I am using Unix and I login in my account.
Then my command line looks like this:
[username@somestupidfolder]$
How can I hide this information so I can get clean $ as cursor.
Basically:
[username@somestupidfolder]$ to $
2 Answers
Run
PS1="$ "
from the terminal. If you want this to persist every time you launch a new terminal, you will need to add this change to your .bash_rc. PS1 should already be defined there (and giving you the present format you see).
Comments
It depends from the shell you are using
for bash shell:
PS1="$ "
to make it stable for each new shell you will write it in .bash_rc or in .profile
(or in .bash_profile).
for csh or tcsh
set prompt="$ "
to make it stable for each new shell you will write it in .cshrc or .tcshrc (if it is a tcsh shell)
for a zsh
PROMPT='$ '
to make it stable for each new shell you will write it in .zshrc
Bonus: If you are in bash and you want a minimalist prompt with a nice feature you can try
PS1="\`if [ \$? = 0 ]; then echo -e '\[\e[01;32m\]$'; else echo -e '\[\e[01;31m\]$'; fi\` \[\e[0m\]"
You will have a green $ if the last command was finished without error, or red otherwise.
2 Comments
Hastur
I didn't know in which shell you work... there's a little bonus. Give it a check if it follows what you where searching for. :)
Ing. Michal Hudak
nice feature, but it gives me red if I close file with [CTRL]+[Z]
$in the prompt. Both the answers do that for you.