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Change the terminal prompt

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This can be really trivial,but it helps in ways of making it more comfortable while coding and sending commands to terminal.

My terminal source/bash/root name(my apologies, I dunno which is the right word), reads as follows :

itachi@itachi-HP-Pavilion-g6-Notebook-PC:~$

Can you please tell me how Can I shorten this or change it? The second part after '@' is too long. Is there anyway to change this.? Thanks in advance..

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answered 1 Year ago oraoming · Accepted Answer

Run the following command in a terminal to open ~/.bashrc file:

gedit ~/.bashrc

When .bashrc opens, locate and uncomment force_color_prompt=yes (remove the hash, so it no longer looks like: #force_color_prompt=yes) and change the value of PS1 in something like:

PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}[033[01;32m]u@<anything-you-want>[033[00m]:[033[01;34m]w[033[00m]$ '

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