my terminal look like this! can i change it?

Question

my terminal shows the model of my laptop and not any directory. whenever I try to access a directory it shows no such directory when it actually exists. Even the home directory! I think the problem is this. is there any solution or am I just mistaken? I am new to linux and ask ubuntu so please do forgive me if I am making any mistake. any help will be much appreciated.

For your second issue, please see trying to change to a file directory in the terminal but I am having trouble — steeldriver, Mar 01 '21 at 13:26
@steeldriver I read that post but it doesnt solve my issue. When I use the absolute path it shows no such file or directory and i can't use the relative path because the current directory the terminal in my image shows doesn't exist. — hasan ramp, Mar 01 '21 at 13:34
Unless you have enabled the autocd option, you will need the cd command to access (change to directory) - simply typing the file or directory name attempts to execute the file — steeldriver, Mar 01 '21 at 13:37
@steeldriver i use the cd command when i have to change the directory. — hasan ramp, Mar 01 '21 at 13:38
@steeldriver the screenshot was meant to display the hostname not the command. — hasan ramp, Mar 01 '21 at 14:27
if any of these answers answer your question, please mark it as accepted — trolzen, Jul 22 '21 at 17:01

pLumo · Answer 1 · 2021-03-01T14:28:16.113

Your prompt says you are in ~, which is your home directory. /lenovo is an absolute path. But that path does not exist, hence the error.

Relative path ---> relative/path/to/directory
Absolute path starts with / ---> /absolute/path/to/directory

If this directory existed, it would still not work (unless you have autocd enabled), but with a different error message: Is a directory.
Use cd directory to change to a directory or ls directory to list its contents.

If lenovo is a directory in your $HOME, you can type cd lenovo (relative path) from your $HOME or an absolute path like cd ~/lenovo or cd /home/hasan/lenovo to change to that directory.

thank you very much for explaining and especially telling me about the 'ls' command. I figured out what was going on. — hasan ramp, Mar 01 '21 at 14:32

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 01 '21 at 13:41

With regards to the very long hostname, if you do not want your machine to be called hasan-Lenovo-ideapad-110-15ISK on the network and in the terminal, you can use the hostnamectl command.

Here's how:

Open Terminal (if it's not already open)
Set a new hostname:
```
hostnamectl set-hostname <new-hostname>
```
Note: There is no output when you do this, so do not be surprised if it looks like "nothing happened".

Confirm that everything is good by typing just hostnamectl. You should see something like this:

   Static hostname: my-computer
         Icon name: computer-laptop
           Chassis: laptop
        Machine ID: f45f012d60fc49fabea7b623cd7ae891
           Boot ID: 6aee67bd6bc647158dc2a3c4e43d34c3
  Operating System: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
            Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-66-generic
      Architecture: x86-64

Close Terminal
Re-open Terminal

Your hostname will now be the new value.

my terminal look like this! can i change it?

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