I'm trying to perform a task in the terminal where I want to personalize the pwd output. When I follow the instructions on how to do this, I get error code: 325, and after that only letters from the alphabet come up when I scroll up and down in the terminal and I can't type anything. Does anyone know how I can resolve this?

Hello, and welcome here, at LQ

unfortunately you did not give us any usable details:
What task do you want to perform?
What instruction(s) did you follow?
What was the exact/full error message?

Probably typing reset (+enter) will help you, but without details hard to say more.

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Cecille,

Welocme to the forum.

First of all, typing pwd at a bash commad prompt will output the current working directory, or in other words, where you are in the tree on the systems hard drive. That is all pwd does. You can use the man command to learn more about any command; example type 'man pwd' ( no quotes ).

I suspect what you are trying to do is change the enviriomental variable ps1. ps1 stands for prompt string 1.

So, on my system here is a sample of what I get.

Line 1 is me typing pwd.
Line 2 is my current position in the directry tree.
Line 3 is the outpout of ps1.
Line 4 is a customized bash prompt. This is just bash waiting for my next input.

I hope that clarifies a few things.

Now, the next trick is to use your favouite browsers search function. For this example I typed 'linux how to customize ps1' ( quotes not required ). The first hit was https://tecadmin.net/how-to-customiz...-ps1-in-linux/

It is a nice tutorial on how to change ps1. It was only the first one, that search will turn up lots of examples.

Notice, the first thing I entered was 'linux'. I do that to avoid tuns of hits for the OTHER operating system. The rest is what I was looking for. As a new user of linux, it takes some time to get a feel for what to ask in your search. Practice always will improve your abilities.

BTW, I have no idea what error code 325 is. Best guess is probably a syntax error of some sort. Bash is saying your input didn't make sense.

When asking for help, it helps us to help you to include the exact text of the input you typed.

Have a look at the url I posted, and if you need further help, post what you entered, the results that occured, and what you expected. More information is better that less when asking for assistance.

Hope this helps.

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That code looks like a vi error to me. Did you crash out of the editor? If so, there's a left-over swap file that may be giving you grief.

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