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In a terminal emulator like xterm my prompt looks like this:

[august@macmini ~]$

but in a virtual console the string ;linux is prepended to the prompt to make it look like this:

;linux[august@macmini ~]$

Does anyone know where the "linux" string may come from?

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answered 2 Years ago rinstracte · Accepted Answer

It turns out that things go wrong when a command to set the window title is executed in a virtual console (where there is no window). Changing

PROMPT_COMMAND='printf "e]0;%sa" "$TERM"'

to

if [[ $TERM = xterm* ]]; then

    PROMPT_COMMAND='printf "e]0;%sa" "$TERM"'

fi

solves the problem.