
You can customize your terminal prompt to look like this:
vassilis@Wide-MAC-OS: ~/Desktop$
simply type [export PS1=" "]
Between the quotation marks, you can add the following lines to customize your Terminal prompt:
\d – Current date
\t – Current time
\h – Host name
\# – Command number
\u – User name
\W – Current working directory (ie: Desktop/)
\w – Current working directory, full path (ie: /Users/Admin/Desktop)
the command [export PS1="\u@\h\w$ "] for example will look like:
Admin@MacBook~Desktop/$ "
Make it permanent ...
edit your .profiile file located in your home root folder using [pico] editor. Add a line, type the above command and save the file.