How to hide computer name in OSX terminal

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I love to have a clean terminal, the name of the computer is a piece of information not relevant to read every single time.

Terminal without the computer name

I'm still using the bash shell.

echo "export PS1='$ '" >> ~/.bash_profile
. ~/.bash_profile

For zsh users add the following line into the .zshrc.

PS1="%n$ "

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