Customising your terminal with colors

Submitted by Jochus on Wed, 20/02/2013 - 22:11 | Posted in: Mac
Mac

Problem

In my terminal, I like to have the words username@machinename colored. This makes it more easy to separate different commands.

Solution

Add following rule(s) to ~/.bashrc:

User

  • Linux

PS1='\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h \[\033[01;34m\]\w \$ \[\033[00m\]'

  • Mac OS X

PS1='\[\033[1;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[0m\] \[\033[1;36m\]\w\[\033[0m\] $ '
CLICOLOR=1
LSCOLORS=ExFxBxDxCxegedabagacad

root

PS1='\[\033[01;31m\]\u@\h \[\033[01;34m\]\w \$ \[\033[00m\]'

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