You need to alter PS1
variable in your environment. PS1
is responsible of how fancy your command prompt will look alike, and what information it will contain.
Permanent change
Following is the excerpt of default .bashrc
file in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '
else
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ '
fi
This makes command prompt look like this: username@hostname:~/directory$
If you change this and delete @\h
part in PS1
, you will get rid of hostname part in your command prompt:
if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '
else
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u:\w\$ '
fi
Result: username:~/directory$
Temporary change
Override PS1
in your current bash
session:
export PS1="\u:\w\$ "
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