How do I remove PWD from terminal?

Question

How do I remove the PWD from the terminal? I'm not referring to the command but the automatic display next to my username@hostname. I would like it to work more like it does on other distros.

Thank you.

Answer 1

Go to your home directory and edit .bashrc file. There you can find lines that look similar to this one:

PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ '

Delete \w and current working directory will dissappear.

Answer 2

The appearance of the prompt is based upon the value of the environment variable $PS1. To see it use:

    echo $PS1

You'll see something like this:

    \[\e]0;\u@\h: \w\a\]${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$

To remove your current working directory from your prompt, just remove the '\w' from the variable.

    export PS1='\[\e]0;\u@\h: \w\a\]${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\$'

You'll get the prompt without the present working directory now. To make the effect permanent, add that line to .bashrc file.