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nephridium is offline nephridium
2010-08-23 , 04:49
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Terminal bashing in 16 colors

For those who like a bit more color in their terminals this one should be useful. Check http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=40418 for a version of ls that shows different colors for directories/files etc..

ls.color runs on the standard busybox shell environment, but I prefer to use bash which can be obtained through:
sudo apt-get install bash

Being somewhat thumb-lazy I'm using the following terminal commands to call ls.color:

l = simple color files list
ll = detailed color list, newest files at bottom
lll = detailed color list sorted by extensions

To get these commands I added the following lines into /etc/bash.bashrc :
alias l='/bin/ls.color'
alias ll='/bin/ls.color -lrt'
alias lll='/bin/ls.color -alX --group-directories-first '

To also have the "~/folder/ $" prompt in color you can add this line:
PS1="\e[1;33m\w \e[1;32m\$\e[m "
This will show the folder in yellow and the "$" in green.

More info on the somewhat cryptic "PS1" syntax here: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/bash-sh...linux-or-unix/

Now to invoke bash with all its colorly glory simply type "bash". Or if you're as lazy as I am just create a file called /usr/bin/b with this line and make it executable:
/bin/bash
This way you just need to type "b"

With the colored prompt it's easy to see whether bash is already running or just busybox's ksh.

Reward: Upgrades "terminal" minigame from monochrome to EGA mode! CH +1, ST +.5 when in terminal mode
Last edited by nephridium; 2010-08-25 at 17:47.
 

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