Color terminal under Mac OS X
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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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
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
login shells read .bash_profile
non login shells read .bashrc
Comment by whiteknight — 26/3/2007 @ 9:28
This worked perfectly! Thank you very much for the clear write-up and great color scheme.
Comment by Seth — 22/2/2009 @ 11:31