FAQ: Environment - PS1 Environment Variable

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This community-built FAQ covers the “PS1 Environment Variable” exercise from the lesson “Environment”.

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Learn the Command Line

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Still not sure what I did wrong in this lesson What was supposed to happen was the change of $ to >>. I keep getting The “X” instead of check off in the instructions. I have a screenshot if I’m allow to send it to a staff member I would be more than happy to. I’m not sure if its a bug or I did something wrong.

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You can post the screenshot here or paste the code you ran.

@michael.owen.1990

#open ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_rc or ~/.zshrc (if you're using catalina)
#in your text editor:
PS1="whatever you want it to be";
export PS1;
#save and exit
#in your terminal:
source ~/.bash_profile #or whatever was the name of the file you modified, it has to be the right one with your system for it to work