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The terminal command prompt for ubuntu is too long, the main reasons are:

1: the computer name is too long

2: multi-layer is directly displayed.

For long computer name processing:

For example, the following computer name prompt is too long:

Ningcaichen-virtual-machine is the computer name:

Ningcaichen@ningcaichen-virtual-machine:/mytmp$ sudo vim / etc/hostname

Modified to:

Ningcaichen@ningcaichen-virtual-machine:/mytmp$ sudo vim / etc/hosts

Modified to:

Restart

The result will be better:

Processing for displaying multi-tier directories:

It looks like:

You can change it without modifying it at a glance, or you can change it to show only the last directory (at this point you have to look at all the paths, you have to pwd):

For example, CentOS shows only the last directory:

Modify this file:

(make a copy before you modify it)

Vim .bashrc

(enter: set number in command line mode) enter to display the line number:

Change the previous\ w to\ W

Re-execute the newly modified initialization command document (which contains commands), and there is no need to restart.

Source / .bashrc

Results:

As you can see, only one directory is shown at the end.

So: pwd if you want to see all of them at this time.

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