How do I change parts of my terminal prompt?

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In Terminal it says

Last login: Mon Jan 13 00:00:14 on ttys000
Logsdon:~ DomGomez$

How do I change the DomGomez part in Terminal?

Matthieu Riegler · Answer 1 · 2014-01-13T11:55:43.340

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If you're familiar with customising your .bashrc, I would suggest customising your prompt(PS1). Here is a tutorial among (a lot of) others about it.

edited Jan 13 '14 at 11:55

answered Jan 13 '14 at 11:39

Matthieu Riegler

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score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 13 '14 at 08:12

first and foremost, that is not your host name as I believe.

Logsdon is your hostname, DomGomez is your username.

To change your hostname, Logsdon to something else, just go to Sharing under System Preferences, and you will find an edit button on the upper panel.

To change your username, here's a official Apple documentation detailing how.

Do backup before proceeding as the apple doc suggests.

I personally don't suggest doing that as I have failed before.

How do I change parts of my terminal prompt?

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