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My prompt in Terminal currently looks like:

Dzulhelmis-MacBook-Pro:~ myusername$

I want it to be as short as possible, maybe at least no hostname there. How do I change my bash prompt?

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Check out this tutorial on how to change your bash prompt. A very short version (only username and no current path): PS1="\u$ "

Result: myusername$ cat something.log

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It works, now the problem is it will not save the new bash prompt. It will show the old one after i shut down my mac. Why? – DzulFriday May 15 '12 at 2:07
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Did you put the variable in the following file: /Users/<yourusername>/.bash_profile? – timbooo May 15 '12 at 15:34

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