Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 19:38:01 -0400 (EDT) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" <atf3r@stretch.cs.virginia.edu> To: David <btjones@email.njin.net> Cc: "freyes@i-2000.com" <Francisco.Reyes@i-2000.com>, FreeBSD questions mailing list <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: colored prompts in BASH Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.960513191924.5192A-100000@stretch.cs.Virginia.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960513074733.5451C-100000@pilot.njin.net>
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On Mon, 13 May 1996, David wrote:
> On Sun, 12 May 1996, Francisco Reyes wrote:
>
> > I tried posting this question in the comp.unix.shell, but my post
> > failed so here it goes..
> > ----------------
> > 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.
> >
> > I have searched in the Bash FAQ and did not find anything
> > regarding colored prompts. I tried the man pages also.
> >
> > Is this a feature available to Linux only?
>
> I don't believe so. I'm almost positive what you are referring
> to is the color-ls package, which has been ported to FreeBSD already.
> It's available as a package on ftp.freebsd.org. colorls-2.1.tgz is the
> actual filename, which can be retrieved from /pub/FreeBSD/packages/All.
>
> ..djw
Take a look at the color_xterm port/package. While both FreeBSD
and Linux do have different and distinct colorized "ls" packages, I
believe they both hinge upon having color_xterm installed. The stock
xterm is monochrome, as are vt100 terminals. At the console prompt you
can probably also get color into your prompts by using syscons/pcvt
specific escape codes or some such nonsense. FYI, here's an example of
how to get "user@path" into both your prompt as well as your xterm title.
Setting your colors should be analogous. Note: the '^[' and '^G' are
control characters. To enter literals in vi prfix them with ^v or in
emacs ^q.
MyPrompt=": \h@\w ;"
PS1="^[]0;${MyPrompt}^G${MyPrompt}"
Caveat: If you are using an unreliable link or terminal emulator
which occasionally drops characters, your screen can get into a funny
state when the right characters are dropped. 'stty sane' should clear up
the problem.
cheers,
Adrian
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