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Terminal.app question

Fenster · 2005-06-28 18:26:09

How can I prevent is from displaying the full path to the folder I'm in, in the command prompt? teh-pwn:/Users/mark/Music/Lenny Kravitz - Greatest Hits root# Its pretty annoying when you're working in a deep folder :p

28-06-2005 6:26pm

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Fenster

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How can I prevent is from displaying the full path to the folder I'm in, in the command prompt?
teh-pwn:/Users/mark/Music/Lenny Kravitz - Greatest Hits root#

Its pretty annoying when you're working in a deep folder

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#2 28-06-2005 6:31pm

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there is probably an applescript to open the terminal and change back to the root directory

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#3 28-06-2005 6:43pm

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formatman wrote:

there is probably an applescript to open the terminal and change back to the root directory

Yeah, but it doesn't help when I'm working in a deep folder, as I said. :P

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#4 01-07-2005 1:18pm

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Fenster wrote:

Yeah, but it doesn't help when I'm working in a deep folder, as I said. :P

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/

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#5 02-07-2005 12:09am

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rsynnott wrote:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/

Very informative link, thank you.

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