When you opens a terminal it displays the username and the machine name. As an example mine shows: romeo@romeo-Satellite-C660D:~$. It's really annoying because it's kinda big. Can i make this smaller, like, only show romeo?
I know it sounds stupid, but I'm new with Unix based OSes.
You need to alter PS1 variable in your environment. PS1 is responsible of how fancy your command prompt will look alike, and what information it will contain.
Permanent change
Following is the excerpt of default .bashrc file in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}[033[01;32m]u@h[033[00m]:[033[01;34m]w[033[00m]$ '
else
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}u@h:w$ '
fi
This makes command prompt look like this: username@hostname:~/directory$
If you change this and delete @h part in PS1, you will get rid of hostname part in your command prompt:
if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}[033[01;32m]u[033[00m]:[033[01;34m]w[033[00m]$ '
else
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}u:w$ '
fi
Result: username:~/directory$
Temporary change
Override PS1 in your current bash session:
export PS1="u:w$ "
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