how to change my command prompt to show current working directory

I'm trying to change my command prompt to display my current working directory, but it doesn't work for me. I have tried putting this in my bash_profile which is in my home directory:

PS1='\h:\w$ '

PS1='\h:$PWD \u$ '

and my prompt does change but it just shows the same as I'm putting in so it doesn't recognize things like \h and \w i think?

I'm running macOS Catalina 10.15.6

Solution 1:

You are using zsh so the definition needs to go to .zshrc and it's slightly different (see man zshmisc for all options). The equivalent for \h \w \$ in zsh is

PS1='%m %~%# '

• %m The hostname up to the first '.'. An integer may follow the % to specify how many components of the hostname are desired. With a negative integer, trailing components of the hostname are shown.
• %~ Current working directory. If an integer follows the %, it specifies a number of trailing components of the current working directory to show; zero means the whole path. If the current working directory starts with $HOME, that part is replaced by a ~
• %# A # if the shell is running with privileges, a % if not.