Comments on: Add Color to the Terminal in Mac OS X

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:38:33 +0000

I forgot to say that you can colourise grep (and fgrep and egrep) without resorting to aliases. The following will suffice in a .bash_profile or such like:

export GREP_OPTIONS=’–color=auto’
export GREP_COLOR=’1;35;40′

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:35:34 +0000

Thanks for your tip. Great for ls.

I copied colordiff to /usr/bin and put ‘alias diff=colordiff’ in my .bash_profile. (colordiff is a pyhton script that performs a colourised diff).

I also use:

alias grep=’grep –color=auto’
alias fgrep=’fgrep –color=auto’
alias egrep=’egrep –color=auto’

Which seem to work.

By: Simple Tricks to Improve the Terminal Appearance in Mac OS X

Simple Tricks to Improve the Terminal Appearance in Mac OS X — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 19:15:49 +0000

[...] run ls, and see the difference. Still not satisfied with the appearance, or have you already done that? There’s more to [...]

By: Jefferson Borges

Jefferson Borges — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:50:27 +0000

Hi!
Really nice post.. thanks a lot!
I’ve been looking for this for like thousands..

A question: Is there a way to make these parameters be valid when you open an SSH session?
I ask it because when I open an SSH connection, it gets back to the default colorless version.

Thanks!

By: MDS

MDS — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 06:03:50 +0000

put sudo in front of it…

sudo nano ~/.bash_profile

it will ask you for your password then you can edit away on the file.

By: John

John — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 04:12:05 +0000

I try to save .bash_profile using Control+O command, but it’s doesn’t work..

By: IR_Black Theme Add Colors Easily to the Terminal in Mac OS X

IR_Black Theme Add Colors Easily to the Terminal in Mac OS X — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:48:51 +0000

[...] recently covered the classic method of adding colors to the command line by editing .bash_profile, but it turns out that Terminal in OS X Lion and OS X [...]

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 03:34:07 +0000

When I use Control+O to sad it asks what name to save it as. Can I use any name, since it will not let me save it as the existing name?

By: James

James — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:33:34 +0000

Add the IR_Black theme to Terminal here – http://blog.toddwerth.com/entries/13

IR_Black comes from a Textmate theme and uses more pastel colors that just are more visible on a dark black background.

Then just make it the default settings. The only change I would make is a choice of a better fixed width font and change the highlight color to something brighter.

By: vdiv

vdiv — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:45:16 +0000

Ah yeah, for non-login shells the settings should be saved in a .bashrc file in the home folder (i.e. xterm under X11)

By: vdiv

vdiv — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:42:33 +0000

Excellent tip! What if one uses xterm under X11?

By: Mrs.Hopper

Mrs.Hopper — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:10:21 +0000

Wow! Love this tip. Thank you very much

By: James

James — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:01:23 +0000

Terminal looks so boring in this day and age, whatever happened to TermKit? It hasn’t been updated since it first was released, so much hope and it went no where.