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I’ve never liked the standard colour path of OSX terminal and, not surprisingly, I didn’t like even the one that comes within Yosemite.

If you are like myself and you want to add some colours in your terminal, here is how you can do it:

  • open the Terminal
  • create a file called “.bash_profile” using your favourite text editor
  • add these lines into it:
export CLICOLOR=1
export LSCOLORS=ExFxBxDxCxegedabagacad
export PS1="\[\e[00;31m\][\h@\u]\[\e[0m\]\[\e[00;37m\] > \[\e[0m\]\[\e[00;32m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\[\e[00;37m\] : \[\e[0m\]"
alias ll='ls -ltr'
  • save and close the file
  • restart your Terminal

The final result will be a Terminal coloured like the following one, showing “[hostname@user] > path :”

terminal

If you want to make your own combination of colours you can easily get your config using this web app https://bashrcgenerator.com/