customising terminal startup

[lazer1]

On 20-Apr-09, Preston Kutzner wrote:
>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

thanks for the info, its all functioning correctly now!

I put the 

PS1='$ '

after the existing PS1 command in case I want to revert to the original
version