odd thing with the terminal

2013-11-13 Thread Sarah k Alawami
I’m on a different network at the moment, the college network to be exact, so this might or might not have something to do with this. I brought up the terminal to do something, a touch command to create an empty file in fact and got this before every single thing when I hit enter. the file

Re: odd thing with the terminal

2013-11-13 Thread Esther
Hi Sarah, I'd guess that you're getting the prompt string for your network address. This seems to be a variant of the question Dónal asked early in the Mavericks upgrade process of why the prompt string for his Terminal sessions had changed, and where the information about his host ID was

Re: odd thing with the terminal

2013-11-13 Thread Dónal Fitzpatrick
Hi Sarah, It seems to me on some networks Mavericks changes the hostname. On my home network it happens but not at work. Cheers, Dónal On 13 Nov 2013, at 18:20, Sarah k Alawami marri...@gmail.com wrote: I’m on a different network at the moment, the college network to be exact, so this