How to Change Mac Terminal Prompt

By default the prompt that you see on your Mac Terminal is as,

logged-in-username@Mac-device-name Current-Directory %

c2cdev@C2cs-MacBook-Pro Desktop % 

If you want to change the way the prompt looks, you can do that by adding the PROMPT details in the .zshrc file.

Steps to Change macOS Terminal Prompt:

1. Open Terminal App
2. Type zsh and press enter to make sure to are in the ZSH Shell.
3. Now type nano ~/.zshrc to open this fine in Nano text editor.
4. Add the below line line in the file and save and exit.

   PROMPT="macOS %% "

   You can add any text you want here, even an emoji 🧑🏻

   Now Press Control + X followed by Y and Enter.

5. To apply changes type source ~/.zshrc on the prompt and enter
6. You will see that the prompt has changed to macOS %

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