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How can I make my terminal's command prompt shorter to increase line realestate?

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I would like to make my terminal's command prompt shorter. Currently I am using Python 's and so that is causing lots of extra text to be displayed in my command prompt. I need to shorten that up to the bare minimum so I'd like to take this: and ideally turn it into or maybe something shorter perha…

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(pytutorial)sez@sez-laptop:~/.virtualenvs/nettuts/firstblog$

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Your prompt can be set utilizing the PS1 envvar. For example to have a minimalist command prompt of '$" simply set PS1='$' in your .bashrc. Here are some good examples of setting a customized prompt

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