Change username in Terminal from .bashrc

[AceInfinity]

I'm going to show you a way to change your username that appears in the terminal before every code that you execute. Mine looks like this:



Where i've replaced "Jason-m40sjd00sd8f ~ $".... with a whole bunch of random numbers and letters.... Into "Infinity ~ $"

Here's how you can do it too.

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First open a terminal and type:

Code:

sudo gedit ~/.bashrc

In .bashrc type:

Code:

PS1=" "

Keep this document open for now.

Open another terminal and type:

Code:

echo $PS1

You will end up with an output that looks something like \[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[01;34m\] \w $\[\033[00m\]

copy the value that shows up into the .bashrc file and paste it into your .bashrc file in between the quotations in PS1=" ". From there, you'll now want to change the "\u@\h" to whatever you want your username to show up in the terminal.

Example:

Code:

\[\033[01;32m\]Infinity\[\033[01;34m\] \w $\[\033[00m\]

If you followed everything correctly you should have the .bashrc file looking something like this:

Code:

\[\033[01;32m\]Infinity\[\033[01;34m\] \w $\[\033[00m\]

Only instead of Infinity you will have your own username.

[Solidus]

For users without gedit, like myself, this will also work,

Code:

sudo nano /etc/bashrc

[AceInfinity]

I also took out the annoying fortune game today by editing one of the associated files.

Now upon opening a Terminal all I see is

Code:

Infinity ~ $