Demystify the Linux Prompt

All About Linux Prompt


                                 Once you log in your account you will see something like this in your terminal

sandeep@sandeep-desktop:~$_

It contain lot of information

1. sandeep :- This is your login name.
2. sandeep-desktop :- This is the name of the machine you are logged in.
3. :~ : This is your current directory(~ is for HOME directory)
4. $ :  This means you were logged in as normal user , if it is # then you are root user.

sandeep@sandeep-desktop:~$ pwd

/home/sandeep

sandeep@sandeep-desktop:~$ cd /etc

sandeep@sandeep-desktop:/etc$ pwd

/etc

root@sandeep-desktop:/home/sandeep#  

* current directory part changes when you moved to another directory.

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