Hush your terminal login

Aug 15, '02 09:24:43AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

If you use the Terminal quite a bit, you might appreciate being able to eliminate some of the text that appears when you open a new Terminal window, before you even get to type anything. Type:

touch ~/.hushlogin
When you hit return, this creates an empty file in your home directory called .hushlogin, which is a flag for the system to not show the Message Of The Day ("Welcome to Darwin!" is the default), and to not show your last login time.

You should find yourself simply dropped off at a prompt.

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