customising terminal startup

[Preston Kutzner]

On Apr 20, 2009, at 3:33 PM, lazer1 wrote:

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> when I open a terminal on recent Ubuntus (eg 7 and 8)
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> I always begin with the commands:
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> PS1="$ "
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> cd /media/SOMEDRIVE/somedirectory
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> as I dont need to be reminded of the current path as I can find that  
> with
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> pwd
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> and a current path prompt grates on my nerves!
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> and I like to go directly to a project directory.
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> How can I make such commands be done automatically whenever I start  
> a terminal
> (shell)?

Your command prompt under Ubuntu is defined in your .bashrc file in  
your home directory.  Just look for the "PS1=blah-blah-blah" line.   
You can also put a line in at the end of your .bashrc that will change  
your working directory to your projects directory:

cd /media/SOMEDRIVE/somedirectory