When using Terminal under a recent macOS version, you’ll most likely will be using Z-Shell (zsh) – a quite common Shell found under Linu

Custom z-Shell prompt

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2022-05-14 04:00:04

When using Terminal under a recent macOS version, you’ll most likely will be using Z-Shell (zsh) – a quite common Shell found under Linux as well. This used to be Bash, but Apple moved to Z-Shell early 2019 (some users may see a message when opening Terminal, requesting them to migrate to zsh).

Note: most of these tricks/settings may work the same way for different shells as well, like Bash and even Linux shell variants.

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In my opinion, some of this default info is of little use to me. I already know it’s me that is logged in (I’m the only user anyway), and I know the hostname of my Mac (and rarely even use it).