Terminal prompt

[Tom Vawter]

Vincente Aggrippino wrote:
>
>
> On 5/1/07, *Tom Vawter* <tvawter at austincc.edu 
> <mailto:tvawter at austincc.edu>> wrote:
>
>     I need help with my terminal prompt.
>
>     After having attempted to mount my macosx partition, my terminal
>     prompt
>     changed to "tvawter at tvawter-pb4:~$".  The  "@tvawter-pb4" was
>     added.  I
>     would like to get rid of this.  I have looked in /etc/profile,
>     ~/.bash
>     and /etc/bash.bashrc, but I am unclear on what to change.  I am also
>     unclear on why my prompt changed at all.
>
>
> Look for something that sets the variable named PS1 and, possibly, 
> PROMPT_COMMAND.  The definition and use of these variables can be 
> found in the man page for your shell (probably bash).  If you find the 
> variable, you might not even need to look at the man page.  It might 
> be obvious what is generating the "@tvawter-pb4" part.
>
> This is probably, "@\h".  that's what it is on mine.  It doesn't seem 
> likely that this happened as a result of mounting a drive, though.
>
> -- Vince
>
>     Thanks
>     Tom Vawter
>
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Thanks, Vincente.  Deleting "@\h" in PS1 in ~/.bashrc did the trick.

Tom