Mac: Replace "users/<computer-name>" in all terminals-CodePudding

I'm running into an issue with hiding my computer name. I want all terminal outputs on my mac (iTerm ->zsh & IntelliJ) to stop showing my computer name and show ~/. Can someone help me achieve this, I'm not sure what setting I'm looking to change.

ie.

From

users/ComputerName/app/src/main/java/com/virtualprodigy/android_compose_template

~/app/src/main/java/com/virtualprodigy/android_compose_template

CodePudding user response：

Prompt format in zsh is controlled by PROMPT or PS1 variable. You can check if one of these variables is set up in ~/.zshrc (if there's no such file, create it by running touch ~/.zshrc).

If in your .zshrc you see a line setting either PROMPT or PS1, in its value substitute %/ (absolute path) with %~ (relative to home path).

If there's no such line in your .zshrc, you can just add this:

PROMPT='%~ %# '

Then save the file and restart your terminal.

CodePudding user response：

To change the output of the pwd command and other commands that display the current working directory, you can create an alias in your shell profile.

STEP 1 : To do this, open the shell profile in a text editor:

nano ~/.zshrc

STEP 2 : Add the following line to the file, which will create an alias for the pwd command that replaces "users/ComputerName" with "~":

alias pwd="pwd | sed 's/\/users\/ComputerName/~/g'"

STEP 3 : You need to replace "ComputerName" with your computer's name. Save the file and exit the editor.Then, you need to activate the changes by running

source ~/.zshrc

This will create an alias for the pwd command that will replace "users/ComputerName" with "~" in the output.

CodePudding user response：

You can change the prompt in your terminal to display ~ instead of the full path by modifying your shell's configuration file.

For zsh, you can add the following line to your ~/.zshrc file:

PROMPT='%~ %# '

For bash, you can add this line to your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc file:

PS1="\w \$ "

This will change the prompt to display only the current directory, represented by ~ for the home directory, and the command prompt symbol ($ for normal users, # for superusers).

You will need to either restart your terminal, or run the command source ~/.zshrc or source ~/.bashrc to apply the changes.