I had problems with colours not showing in iTerm2 for me. I tried a few fixes I found online which didn't work and now my serial number of my laptop is showing in iTerm & Terminal. Anyone know how to remove this?
ITerm2 & Terminal show the Mac serial code
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The standard shell shortcuts (M- = meta = option or esc, C- = control):
M-bandM-fcorrespond to ⌥← and ⌥→C-aandC-ecorrespond to ⌘← and ⌘→
⌥← and ⌥→ are bound to M-b and M-f by default on Lion's Terminal. On 10.6 you'll have to add them manually:
I haven't found any way to reassign ⌘← and ⌘→ in Terminal.
Preferences are cached in 10.9. See http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20130908042828630. If you edit a plist file directly or replace the plist of an application, the application will keep using the cached version even after you quit and reopen the application.
You can run defaults read com.googlecode.iterm2 or killall cfprefsd to apply the changes:
- Quit iTerm
- Edit the plist
- Run
defaults read com.googlecode.iterm2orkillall cfprefsd - Open iTerm
Changes made with defaults are applied after you just quit and reopen an application like in earlier versions of OS X.
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You want to modify something called the prompt or PS1. You can see the current value by typing
echo $PS1To get rid of the first part you don't like and leave only the user name typeexport PS1="\u"If you want to persist the next time you open the terminal, you would write that line in ~/.bashrc A detailed walk through is here http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/