izebit/colorconsole

Colorful console for Mac OS X

ColorConsole

Colorful console for Mac OS X

Installation

• You need ls from the GNU coreutils package (You can install it using brew)
• Copy the colors file to your home directory
• Rename it to colors
• Edit your .profile or .bash_profile file and add the folowing lines

# Tells bash to use GNU ls instead of BSD ls and enables color usage 
# If you don't have `gls` program on your computer, you should write: alias ls='ls -G'
alias ls='gls --color=always'
# Writes the content from the colors file into the LS_COLORS variable
LS_COLORS=$(cat ~/.colors)
# Makes the variable an environment variable
export LS_COLORS