SSH Colour Highlight on Mac
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- Ollie Saunders
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SSH Colour Highlight on Mac
I've found that when using SSH from the Mac OS X terminal I'm not getting all the nice colours some commands such as ls. When connecting to the same server using PuTTY on Windows the colours do appear. Any suggestions on how I can get the colours on mac?
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Change the terminal type from xterm to xterm-color. Your own files and stuff won't show up in color by default, but when you ssh to linux machines they will.
If you want that behaviour in OS X (personally, I always turn color off) then edit your .bashrc file.
EDIT | I should have elaborated
The first two lines are for the ls command, the next lines are for the prompt. Put in .bash_profile if you don't have a .bash_profile. Usually .bash_profile includes .bashrc itself, but you can put the command straight into .bash_profile.
If you want that behaviour in OS X (personally, I always turn color off) then edit your .bashrc file.
EDIT | I should have elaborated
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export CLICOLOR=1
export LSCOLORS=ExFxCxDxBxegedabagacad
# prompt in colo for xterm-color, otherwise just plain
case "$TERM" in
xterm-color)
PS1='\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '
;;
*)
PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ '
;;
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This is .bashrc on the remote machine
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# ~/.bashrc: executed by bash(1) for non-login shells.
# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files (in the package bash-doc)
# for examples
# If not running interactively, don't do anything
[ -z "$PS1" ] && return
# don't put duplicate lines in the history. See bash(1) for more options
#export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups
# check the window size after each command and, if necessary,
# update the values of LINES and COLUMNS.
shopt -s checkwinsize
# make less more friendly for non-text input files, see lesspipe(1)
[ -x /usr/bin/lesspipe ] && eval "$(lesspipe)"
# set variable identifying the chroot you work in (used in the prompt below)
if [ -z "$debian_chroot" -a -r /etc/debian_chroot ]; then
debian_chroot=$(cat /etc/debian_chroot)
fi
# set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we "want" color)
case "$TERM" in
xterm-color)
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]: \[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '
;;
*)
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ '
;;
esac
# Comment in the above and uncomment this below for a color prompt
#PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]: \[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '
# If this is an xterm set the title to user@host:dir
case "$TERM" in
xterm*|rxvt*)
PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD/$HOME/~}\007"'
;;
*)
;;
esac
# Alias definitions.
# You may want to put all your additions into a separate file like
# ~/.bash_aliases, instead of adding them here directly.
# See /usr/share/doc/bash-doc/examples in the bash-doc package.
#if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
# . ~/.bash_aliases
#fi
# enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases
if [ "$TERM" != "dumb" ]; then
eval "`dircolors -b`"
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
#alias dir='ls --color=auto --format=vertical'
#alias vdir='ls --color=auto --format=long'
fi
# some more ls aliases
#alias ll='ls -l'
#alias la='ls -A'
#alias l='ls -CF'
# enable programmable completion features (you don't need to enable
# this, if it's already enabled in /etc/bash.bashrc and /etc/profile
# sources /etc/bash.bashrc).
#if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
# . /etc/bash_completion
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