How to change from bash-3.2$ to [user@localhost ~]$ in UNIX

I am newbie to UNIX. When I was practicing some commands in UNIX. Earlier the Prompt was shown like this "[user@localhost ~]$". After some time it shows "bash-3.2$", but still some commands worked. I tried to change the shell type from bash to ksh and csh. But that didn't worked. How can I change this bash-3.2$ back to [user@localhost ~]$ in bash shell.

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take a look at on how to set up the PS1 variable in bash. It has a wide variety of option

I noticed I got this same issue when I ran

Akinjides-MacBook-Pro:Desktop akinjide$ $SHELL
The output was
bash-3.2$ 

so the $SHELL keyword runs the shell specified by the SHELL environment variable.

you can just type exit to leave.

if you run

Akinjides-MacBook-Pro:Desktop akinjide$ sudo -s
The output was
bash-3.2# 

According to man sudo

-s [command]: The -s (shell) option runs the shell specified by the SHELL environment variable if it is set or the shell as specified in the password database. If a command is specified, it is passed to the shell for execution via the shell's -c option. If no command is specified, an interactive shell is executed.

This prompts for your password, and you can just type exit to leave as well.

The main different here is the $ -> Regular user and # -> Super User

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