January 16, 2006

[Mac] Color your bash

I love color feature in terminal when I use Linux so that I can distinguish which file type it is, such as folder, file, image. However, in Mac system, its terminal seems not set that by default. I tried to enter ls --color=always like I use in Linux, but it does not work in a Mac. Today, I found a solution online: Mac OS X Tiger: Bash Colors

System: Mac OS X 10.4

  • Modify /etc/bashrc
  • Add two lines in the file:
    export CLICOLOR=1
    export TERM=xterm-color
  • Close Terminal, and re-open the terminal.
  • Color feature works in Mac terminal now!

1 comment:

Shawn Pyle said...

`ls -G` seems to do the same for me on OSX 10.5