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# Change the prompt in clickhouse-client
> This article explains how to change the prompt in your Clickhouse client and clickhouse-local terminal window from :) to a prefix followed by :)
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If you don't like how `clickhouse client` and clickhouse-local display the prompt in your terminal window, it is possible to change it to add a prefix.
This article explains how to change the prompt to whatever you want.
The default prompt is your local computer name followed by `:) `:
The following are variables that you can use in a prompt: `{user}`, `{host}`
There are several ways to update the prompt and we'll go through them each.
\--prompt flag
The first way to change the flag is using the `--prompt`:
```bash theme={null}
clickhouse --prompt 👉
```
This will add the finger emoji before the smiley face:
Config file - top level
Alternatively, you can provide a prompt prefix in a `config.xml` file:
```xml theme={null}
👉
```
```
clickhouse
```
We can use a config file with any name we like and pass it in using the `-C` flag:
```xml theme={null}
🎄
```
```
clickhouse -C christmas.xml
```
Prefer your config files to be in YAML?
That works too:
```yaml theme={null}
prompt: 🟡
```
```bash theme={null}
clickhouse -C christmas.yaml
```
Config file - connections\_credentials
Alternatively, you can specify a prompt per connection credentials.
This only makes sense when using clickhouse-client.
```xml theme={null}
prod
127.0.0.1
9000
0
default
\e[31m[PRODUCTION]\e[0m {user}@prod
dev
127.0.0.1
9000
0
default
\e[32m[DEVELOPMENT]\e[0m {user}@dev
```
We can then try to connect with the `dev` connection:
```bash theme={null}
clickhouse client -C connections.xml --connection dev
```
Or the `prod` one:
```bash theme={null}
clickhouse client -C connections.xml --connection prod
```
And here's a YAML version:
```yaml theme={null}
connections_credentials:
connection:
- name: prod
hostname: 127.0.0.1
port: 9000
secure: 0
user: default
prompt: "\e[35m[PRODUCTION]\e[0m {user}@{host}"
- name: dev
hostname: 127.0.0.1
port: 9000
secure: 0
user: default
prompt: "\e[34m[DEVELOPMENT]\e[0m {user}@{host}"
```
With the `dev` connnection:
```bash theme={null}
clickhouse client -C connections.yaml --connection dev
```
And now `prod`:
```bash theme={null}
clickhouse client -C connections.yaml --connection prod
```