Mac: Replace "users/<computer-name>" in all terminals

Question

I'm running into an issue with hiding my computer name. I want all terminal outputs on my mac (iTerm ->zsh & IntelliJ) to stop showing my computer name and show ~/. Can someone help me achieve this, I'm not sure what setting I'm looking to change.

ie.

From

users/ComputerName/app/src/main/java/com/virtualprodigy/android_compose_template

To

~/app/src/main/java/com/virtualprodigy/android_compose_template

Answer 1

You can change the prompt in your terminal to display ~ instead of the full path by modifying your shell's configuration file.

For zsh, you can add the following line to your ~/.zshrc file:

PROMPT='%~ %# '

For bash, you can add this line to your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc file:

PS1="\w \$ "

This will change the prompt to display only the current directory, represented by ~ for the home directory, and the command prompt symbol ($ for normal users, # for superusers).

You will need to either restart your terminal, or run the command source ~/.zshrc or source ~/.bashrc to apply the changes.

Answer 2

Prompt format in zsh is controlled by PROMPT or PS1 variable. You can check if one of these variables is set up in ~/.zshrc (if there's no such file, create it by running touch ~/.zshrc).

If in your .zshrc you see a line setting either PROMPT or PS1, in its value substitute %/ (absolute path) with %~ (relative to home path).

If there's no such line in your .zshrc, you can just add this:

PROMPT='%~ %# '

Then save the file and restart your terminal.