Thursday, January 18th, 2007

Color terminal under Mac OS X

Filed under: — Daniel Lemire @ 13:45

One thing that annoys me since I started using Mac OS X is that there is no color in the terminal. So I added the following lines to my .bashrc file:


export TERM="xterm-color"
alias ls="ls -G"
PS1="\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[01;34m\] \w \$\[\033[00m\] ”

For some reason, I also had to add the following line at the end of the global bashrc file (/etc/bashrc) so that my user bashrc file is read:


. ~/.bashrc

See also my post I have had it with Firefox under MacOS.

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3 Comments »

  1. FYI, here is my PS1:

    export PS1=”[\[\e[33m\]\u@\H \[\e[32m\]\w\[\e[0m\]]\n[\[\e[31m\]\!\[\e[0m\]] > “

    Comment by Peter Turney — 18/1/2007 @ 17:00

  2. I’m pretty sure that in the normal course of events, bash reads your .bash_profile on login. Most .bash_profile files then source the .bashrc

    Ex .bash_profile:

    # Get the aliases and functions
    if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
    . ~/.bashrc
    fi

    Comment by phil — 20/1/2007 @ 0:26

  3. login shells read .bash_profile
    non login shells read .bashrc

    Comment by whiteknight — 26/3/2007 @ 9:28

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