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So, I saw this: And I have been wondering... What does this mean or do? |
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May 10, 2024
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That's the username and host. It's fairly common to have that in the shell prompt, so you can tell which computer you're running commands on. (You don't want to connect to a remote computer and then run the wrong commands!) For example, here's Bash on Linux: My username is |
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That's the username and host. It's fairly common to have that in the shell prompt, so you can tell which computer you're running commands on. (You don't want to connect to a remote computer and then run the wrong commands!) For example, here's Bash on Linux:
My username is
samand my host (AKA computer name) issam-lubuntu. Which I should probably change because I'm using kubuntu not lubuntu, but oh well.