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i have GNOME Terminal 2.18.0 through ubuntu. how can i stop the current directory being displayed on the command line as this can become annoying in extensive directories?

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Ansgar Burchardt (aburch) said : 		#1

You have to change the environment variable PS1. If you still want to see the name of the current directory (not the full path) set it to "\u@\h:\W$ ". Other settings are described in the man page for bash.

To make the change permanent add
  export PS1="\u@\h:\W$ "
to your ~/.bashrc.

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