customising terminal startup

Preston Kutzner shizzlecash at gmail.com
Mon Apr 20 21:51:49 UTC 2009


On Apr 20, 2009, at 4:49 PM, Preston Kutzner wrote:

> On Apr 20, 2009, at 3:33 PM, lazer1 wrote:
>
>>
>> when I open a terminal on recent Ubuntus (eg 7 and 8)
>>
>>
>> I always begin with the commands:
>>
>>
>> PS1="$ "
>>
>> cd /media/SOMEDRIVE/somedirectory
>>
>>
>> as I dont need to be reminded of the current path as I can find  
>> that with
>>
>>
>> pwd
>>
>> and a current path prompt grates on my nerves!
>>
>>
>>
>> and I like to go directly to a project directory.
>>
>>
>> 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

As a follow-up.  If you want to make the change global, you can edit  
the "PS1=blah-blah-blah" line in the file /etc/bash.bashrc





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