Color Your Command Prompt 2.0

There was a previous post made on coloring your terminal. It kind of interested me but I didn’t like colors or the confusing hash like format that it was in if I wanted to change it later. So I dug in a little bit and here’s what I have:


# color terminal
# 1st = username, 2nd = working directory, 3rd = $ prompt, 4th = text-type.
#Black 0;30 Dark Gray 1;30
#Blue 0;34 Light Blue 1;34
#Green 0;32 Light Green 1;32
#Cyan 0;36 Light Cyan 1;36
#Red 0;31 Light Red 1;31
#Purple 0;35 Light Purple 1;35
#Brown 0;33 Yellow 1;33
#Light Gray 0;37 White 1;37
PS1='\[\e[0;37m\]\u\[\e[m\] \[\e[1;37m\]\w\[\e[m\] \[\e[0;35m\]\$ \[\e[m\]\[\e[1;35m\] ‘


That’s exactly what I have in my ~/.bash_profile file so that I can understand easier and have the colors right in front of me when I want to change it; the 1st, 2nd … and so on refer to the sequence of the numbers i.e. 1st is 0;37 and 3rd is 0;35.

Right now I have set up in sort of TextMate icon theme, seen below:

Edit: The format looks a little scrambled when posted so here’s a screenshot that looks a bit more intelligible:

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