Add this to your .bash_profile on a Mac or .bashrc on the linux system, you'll love what it does export PS1='\[\e]0;\w\a\]\n\[\e[32m\]\u@\h \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n\$ ' -- Istvan Albert Associate Professor, Bioinformatics Pennsylvania State University http://www.personal.psu.edu/iua1/