Customizing the OS X terminal intro and prompt

30 Apr 2006 17:13 - (0) comments

When you open a new terminal, OS X greets you with "Welcome to Darwin!". You can change this intro by changing 'the message of the day' in /private/etc/motd.
If like to, you can add some fancy ascii art.

You can also change the prompt. In ~/.profile add the following line: PS1="\u@\h:\w ".
This prints the username, the hostname and the current working directory. There are other switches you can use.