osx terminal colors

Jul 21, 2015 • general and osx

This short post is just a wrap up of how to setup linux like terminal (bash) colors on osx.

This is how the terminal coloring is default on osx: terminal colors default

Simply edit or create the bash_profile file like so:

vim ~/.bash_profile

and paste the following in there:

export PS1="\[\033[36m\]\u\[\033[m\]@\[\033[32m\]\h:\[\033[33;1m\]\w\[\033[m\]\$ "
export CLICOLOR=1
export LSCOLORS=ExFxBxDxCxegedabagacad
alias ls='ls -GFh'

This is from a blog post here.

The end result will look like this: terminal colors after