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Where does the prompt name come from in the macOS Terminal?

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Mar 15, 202612059 views
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Problem

Where does the word at the beggining of the prompt on my MacBook Pro terminal come from? At the moment, it looks like this Obviously, the ConfusedNoob is my username - but where on Earth is coming from?

Error Output

Last login: Fri Oct 14 12:55:34 on ttys000
sherrythinkpad:~ ConfusedNoob$ 
sherrythinkpad:~ ConfusedNoob$

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Fix for: Where does the prompt name come from in the macOS Terminal?

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Terminal is showing you the first label of your BSD hostname (assuming your shell is BASH). If your BSD hostname is then Terminal will display only - So from where does the BSD hostname come? It can come from several places: From the file: Else from…

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