Color shell prompts (was Re: FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE mutt & color (color))

[oremanj at get-linux.org]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 06:41:48PM -0400, Kevin Berrien wrote:
> I was thinking of something a bit more practical, like the color changes 
> for file types (dirs, etc..).

Oh, that :-)
man ls
basically: export CLICOLOR=y

-- Josh

> 
> Joshua Oremzn wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 12:51:43PM -0400 or thereabouts, Kevin Berrien 
> >wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>Speaking of color.  Does anyone have a good tutorial/script to add color 
> >>in bash as one finds in the newer linux distributions?
> >>
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >"The Bash-Prompt HOWTO" @ tldp.org
> >is a good one. Just to give you an idea about how crazy this all can
> >get, take a look at this prompt (for zsh). Note that ^[ means the
> >real ESC character, not caret + left bracket. Sorry about the long lines:
> >

<snip horrendous-looking prompt :->

> >
> >-- Josh
> >
> >P.S. Of course I don't use that prompt!
> >
> > 
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