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Difference between Terminals?

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alienanxiety

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Jan 9, 2010
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Just did install of Lion on my iMac - my new Macbook Air obviously came with Lion pre-installed. In terminal however, my root directory is listed as this:

-MacBook-Air:~ Tes$

none of the standard commands seem to work. what is Tes$?

I tried Lion terminal on the iMac and it opens normally without the Tes$ at the end.

Any ideas how to fix this?
 
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technopimp

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Aug 12, 2009
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Your username is apparently Tes, and it's saying you're in the root of your user folder (~ is the equivalent of /users/Tes in your case).
 
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alienanxiety

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Jan 9, 2010
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That's really strange. I have no idea what Tes is. It's certainly not my user name. Really weird. That shouldn't stop commands from working though, right?
 
seepel

seepel

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Dec 22, 2009
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Out of curiosity what commands aren't working? My terminal work has been completely unaffected.
 
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alienanxiety

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Jan 9, 2010
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this, for example, does not work on the new 11' Air:

sudo /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit /etc/hosts
 
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h00ligan

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Apr 10, 2003
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Edit it in Pico. And stop pirating photoshop ;).

Different contents structure. That's an app difference not a terminal issue.
 
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