Enabling Colors in OS X's Terminal Revision as of Sunday, 20 December 2015 at 19:56 UTC
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How to
Add these to .bash_profile
export CLICOLOR=1
export LSCOLORS=ExFxCxDxBxegedabagacad
Remove any mention of xterm
Other info
The LSCOLORS variable needs 11 letters for colors.
Colors
a black
b red
c green
d brown
e blue
f magenta
c cyan
h light grey
A block black, usually shows up as dark grey
B bold red
C bold green
D bold brown, usually shows up as yellow
E bold blue
F bold magenta
G bold cyan
H bold light grey; looks like bright white
x default foreground or background
Order
- directory
- symbolic link
- socket
- pipe
- executable
- block special
- character special
- executable with setuid bit set
- executable with setgid bit set
- directory writable to others, with sticky bit
- directory writable to others, without sticky bit