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I've recently made the switch from OS X's Terminal app to iTerm2. There is a small issue which is annoying me. After every command a %-sign is printed out in the terminal.

I also have a Debian 6 VM, which I SSH to. On that machine I get a # instead of the %-sign.

Is there any way to disable this?

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I fixed this issue by setting Report Terminal Type to rxvt in the settings.

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that's the prompt, provided by whichever shell you're running. You can see which shell you're currently running with

echo $SHELL

then you can do some reading on the 'net about that particular shell and how to customize your environment. For example, if you're using bash, http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/ or http://www.macworld.com/article/146550/2010/02/rootprompt.html would be good places to start.

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