Your command line welcomes you with a prompt.
Default OSX terminal may look like this.
PS1 is the variable used by your shell to determine your command line prompt
RPS1 determines your right hand prompt.
Note, you can always `echo` this variable to see what these are currently set to.
By default, mine is set to %n@%m %1~ %#
These % (percent) symbol combinations are prompt expansions (docs)
%n– is the special variable $USERNAME (echo this to check)@– literally the “@“ sign,%m– hostname up to the first “.”%1~– current working directory for “1” ancestor- Additionally you may like..
%~– current working directory with home aliased to “~”%D– date in yy-mm-dd (International) format%W– date in mm-dd-yy (US) format%t– time in am/pm format%*– time in 24 hour format
Note, your prompt can even accept emoji’s 🚀
How to apply this to every new terminal window
If you are using bash, add your PS1=... command to your ~/.bash_profile file.
If you are using zsh, add your PS1=... command to your ~/.zshrc file
* emoji’s are not available on all machines, but great on those are.