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

By: Jinx

Jinx — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:24:04 +0000

I pasted in the color settings just as described in this article, and now every time I log in I see this:

-bash: alias: -: not found
-bash: alias: See: not found
-bash: alias: more: not found
-bash: alias: at:: not found
-bash: alias: http://osxdaily.com/2013/02/05/improve-terminal-appearance-mac-os-x/#sthash.tKyckXI0.dpuf: not found

Any ideas how I can get rid of this?

By: Andrew Rich

Andrew Rich — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:37:57 +0000

Thanks for this article and useful comments! I put these into my ~/.profile – why would I use ~/.bash_profile instead?

export PS1=”\[33[36m\]\u\[33[m\]@\[33[32m\]\h:\[33[33;1m\]\w\[33[m\]\$ ”
export CLICOLOR=1
export LSCOLORS=ExFxBxDxCxegedabagacad
alias ls=ls\ -AFGhl
export HISTIGNORE=”$HISTIGNORE:fortune:history”
export HISTCONTROL=”ignoredups”
export HISTTIMEFORMAT=”%F %T > ”
export GREP_OPTIONS=”–color=auto”
export GREP_COLOR=”1;32″

By: giuseppe

giuseppe — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 06:09:42 +0000

how to revert to the original ?

By: Arpit

Arpit — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:50:02 +0000

How about switching to zsh?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:10:05 +0000

I also feel no need to try iTerm2 now that Terminal.app has tabs.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:09:16 +0000

http://nixdoc.net/man-pages/FreeBSD/man1/ls.1.html

scroll down to “LSCOLORS” for more info.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:08:56 +0000

export HISTSIZE=5000
export HISTFILESIZE=5000
export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups
export HISTTIMEFORMAT=’%F %T > ‘

export GREP_COLOR=’1;32′

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:13:34 +0000

What exactly are the “command line colors” enabled by CLICOLOR?

By: Bruno Bernardino

Bruno Bernardino — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:05:20 +0000

Here’s another nice (simpler) suggestion for the terminal: http://wozia.com/blog/tips/how-to-make-the-terminal-sexy-on-mac-os-x/

By: Carlito Ito

Carlito Ito — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:01:13 +0000

You like monochrome? Cool. I like colors.

By: tito

tito — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:04:11 +0000

LOLO, do you really think the first screenshot is an improvement ? Or is the improvement visible after wearing sunglasses ?

By: Frizlab

Frizlab — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 13:53:08 +0000

I use Terminal everyday professionally and wouldn’t switch to anything else for all the gold of the world…
You may prefer iTerm2, but let others have their own opinion.

By: Frizlab

Frizlab — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 13:52:44 +0000

@Maicon Nunes
I use Terminal everyday professionally and wouldn’t switch to anything else for all the gold of the world…
You may prefer iTerm2, but let others have their own opinion.

By: jon

jon — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 11:45:53 +0000

Ever since I discovered the free Source Code Pro font, I’ve never used anything else for all my Terminal & plain text work.

And the colors are pretty & convenient, but I prefer to go all green-on-black. Guess I’m just pining for my old Apple II+.

By: Maicon Nunes

Maicon Nunes — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 03:25:14 +0000

The best tip is get rid of Terminal.app and use iTerm2. Anyone who uses shell professionally will tell you the same.