18th January 2007, 1 min read

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.