customising terminal startup

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:33:46 +0100
lazer1 <lazer1 at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> when I open a terminal on recent Ubuntus (eg 7 and 8)
> 
> 
> I always begin with the commands:
> 
> 
> PS1="$ "
> 
> cd /media/SOMEDRIVE/somedirectory
> 
> 
> as I dont need to be reminded of the current path as I can find that
> with 
> 
> 
> pwd
> 
> and a current path prompt grates on my nerves!
> 
> 
> 
> and I like to go directly to a project directory.
> 
> 
> How can I make such commands be done automatically whenever I start a
> terminal (shell)?
> 
> 

Assuming you are on Ubuntu, open help and search on terminal. There
used to be all kinds of useful information about the terminal window and
customizing it, when I used ubuntu.

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Charlie Kravetz 
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