i was learning some terminal commands. on my own. unsupervised. bad idea. i get it. at some point i typed "mail" (because i got a notification in terminal that i had some 900+ messages.) ever since then, my command line ends with a "%" instead of the usual "$" that i'm used to seeing.
what did i do, and how do i fix it?
MacBook, macOS 10.15
Bash or Zsh shell? The PS1 prompt syntax is different. The '%' character is the standard prompt character in the zsh shell.
Bash (~/.bash_profile):
export PS1="\h: \w \$ "
Zsh (in ~/.zshrc or ~/.zshprofile):
prompt='"%m: %~ $ '
or
export PS1="%m: %~ $ "
Bash or Zsh shell? The PS1 prompt syntax is different. The '%' character is the standard prompt character in the zsh shell.
Bash (~/.bash_profile):
export PS1="\h: \w \$ "
Zsh (in ~/.zshrc or ~/.zshprofile):
prompt='"%m: %~ $ '
or
export PS1="%m: %~ $ "
not that i can tell. but then again, how would i know? hehehe
i guess i'm not smart enough to know the difference... the crux of what you're saying is that it doesn't really matter (and that i didn't break anything). yes?
also, thanks for the response!
Nothing broken beyond aesthetics of the prompt. 😎
% prompt in terminal instead of $