Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 08:02:20 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: Francisco.Reyes@i-2000.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: colored prompts in BASH Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960513075813.20273F-100000@sasami> In-Reply-To: <199605131022.TAA19304@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Mon, 13 May 1996, Michael Smith wrote:
> Francisco Reyes stands accused of saying:
> > At work there is one Linux computer and the bash shell there
> > has color prompts for different types of files. I have FreeBSD
> > at home and I would like to have colored prompts.
> Grrr, terminology. They aren't "prompts". What you are seeing is the
> Linux 'ls' command, which uses colour. This is available for FreeBSD in the
> ports collection as 'linuxls'; 'colorls' is another variation on the same
> thing.
Well, I use colorls, and use the following with tcsh.
set prompt="%{[0m[1m[31m%}[%{[1m[32m%}%m%{[1m[31m%}]%{[1m[33m%}:%{[1m[34m%}%/%{[0m[0m%}> "
if ("$term" == "xterm") then
alias cwdcmd 'echo -n "]2;${HOST} : $cwd ";echo -n "]1;${HOST}"'
cwdcmd
endif
Which is nice and pretty. Variations on this theme have resulted
in a root prompt that turns your stomach. You won't want to
stay root for long! Flashing yellow and pink! Fear! Its a bad
Amiga/ANSI BBS! (and it lags a 2400bps modem! woohoo!)
Evil! Evil! Bad! :)
Have a good one.
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