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Yechiel Kalmenson • Edited

The // ♥ is the default prompt in Flatiron School's IDE (a play on their motto "Learn, Love, Code"), and I've been adding it to my terminal ever since.

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Doug Miller

how do i get out of script and the // ♥ prompt? I can't use terminal for anything else.

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Yechiel Kalmenson

The settings for the prompt are usually in a file in the home directory called .bashrc or .bash_profile, search for PS1, that's the variable that holds your bash prompt. If you want to change it just change the value of PS1.

There are lots of tutorials online that teach how to add dynamic information to the prompt, like the current working directory, the time, and how to add color.

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Doug Miller

Thanks for the help,

It seems that some kind of script was running and even when I exit it, It would restart when opened terminal again.

It started after I followed the set up the Flatiron school tutorials.

In the end I deleted all the .bashxx files and restarted terminal.

Nothing succeeds like excess!