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karfkars
karfkars

Reputation: 4063

bash terminal, want the cursor to be shown at the beginning of the next line

I use bash terminal on macos.

The user name, computer name and file path face most of the line, so if I write a long command I start on one line and continue on the next line.

Instead I would prefer the line cursor starts at the next line below user name and computer name. 

#Current
user-mane@computer-name:~/directory/sub-directory/another-sub-directory$ls -la

#I would like to have 
user-mane@computer-name:~/directory/sub-directory/another-sub-directory$
ls -la

Do you have any idea, how I could start the cursor at he begining of the next line.

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Upvotes: 3

Views: 2905

Answers (2)

Bikash Kalita
Bikash Kalita

Reputation: 11

If you are having ~/.bashrc, then open the file ~/.bashrc and search for lines starting with PS1='...' and at the end of PS1='... ' add \n like this: PS1='... \n'

After that, save the file and exit your editor and run the command :

source ~/.bashrc

Upvotes: 1

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams

Reputation: 799082

Put a newline at the end of $PS1 in the shell startup files.

Upvotes: 8

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