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Add Color To MAC OSX Bash Prompt
This is a discussion on Add Color To MAC OSX Bash Prompt within the Getting started tutorials forums, part of the Linux Getting Started category; Hello, I use a Mac Book Pro for my personal laptop. When using the bash shell, I noticed that when ...
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24-10-2009, 10:07 PM
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Add Color To MAC OSX Bash Prompt
Hello,
I use a Mac Book Pro for my personal laptop. When using the bash shell, I noticed that when performing a ls on a directory all the file listings were in the same color. However when I am on Debian or Red Hat these listings looked colorful. I searched this topic and I was able to come up with this cool hack. Edit your .bash_profile file in your home directory with you favorite editor. Add the following to the file. Log out and have a look. Pretty cool when you run a list. Code:
laptop:~ jasonralph$vi ~/.bash_profile Code:
laptop:~ jasonralph$ cat .bash_profile export CLICOLOR=1 export LSCOLORS=ExFxCxDxBxegedabagacad laptop:~ jasonralph$ Before editing: After Editing. Have fun, Jaysunn Last edited by jaysunn; 24-10-2009 at 10:12 PM. 
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25-10-2009, 10:13 PM
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Under BSD I use something as follows. Since OS X mostly use BSD cli tools, it may also work.
Code:
alias ls='ls -G' ls \ls
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16-12-2009, 03:32 PM
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16-12-2009, 04:17 PM
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oh yah vi shows colours now
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