Why is my terminal name not the same?
It’s perfectly normal for this to occur; when you login Terminal remotely bash does a reverse DNS lookup. It will only be the same if the hostname is not specified on the network you’re connecting from and there is no reply from the DHCP server, or the reverse lookup against the remote DNS server fails to resolve.
Why does Bash not show the host name?
I have several VMs and right now my command-line prompt looks like -bash-3.2$; identical on every VM, because it doesn’t contain the host name. I need to always see which VM I’m on using hostname before I do any operation. How can I add the host name to the shell prompt?
Why is my hostname variable not showing in terminal?
There are two potential reasons for the shell ( $HOSTNAME variable, ‘\\h’ in $PS1) and the hostname utility to report a hostname that differs from the one shown in System Preferences > Sharing:
How to find the hostname and physical address?
Physical Address: Refers to the physical address of the Ethernet connection to your computer or server. This may also be referred to as your MAC (Media Access Control) Address, Host ID or Server ID. It is twelve characters long and is a combination of numbers (0–9) and letters (A–F, a–f).
How to make a pretty prompt in Windows Terminal with Powerline?
Do your Linux source code/git work in the Linux filesystem for speed until WSL2 gets the file system faster under /mnt. At this point your Ubuntu/WSL prompt will look awesome as well! Fonts look weird? Uh oh! If you do all this and you see squares and goofy symbols, it’s likely that the font you’re using doesn’t have the advanced Powerline glyphs.
How to change the display name on the terminal?
If you have more than one line starting with PS1=, try changing them one by one, while saving the .bashrc file and opening a new terminal each time, to see if you edited the right one. To just experiment with what’s displayed, without messing up anything, you can type export PS1=”whatever you want”.