终端在用户名osx之前显示localhost

Question

I'm working on getting GIT installed so starting to use my terminal more. Noticed something odd though. The word localhost:~ before my username

so localhost:~ username$

Is this something I need to be worried about? Just I'm following some tutorials and all of them so far just have the user name like

username$

Done a bit of searching and found nothing on this so far and just wanted to check before I move on any further. Thanks

using osx 10.8.5

Answer 1

Nothing to worry about. localhost is the name of your machine, followed by :, followed by the directory you're in, in this case ~ , which is your home directory.