change command line color

fatherwillow · 05-31-2012, 12:12 PM

How can I change the font color of the command line?

Jaysonfw · 05-31-2012, 12:52 PM

From http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/bash-sh...linux-or-unix/
Add colors to the prompt
To add colors to the shell prompt use the following export command syntax:
'\e[x;ym $PS1 \e[m'

Where,

\e[ Start color scheme
x;y Color pair to use (x;y)
$PS1 is your shell prompt
\e[m Stop color scheme
To set a red color prompt, type the command:
$ export PS1="\e[0;31m[\u@\h \W]\$ \e[m "

List of Color code
Color Code
Black 0;30
Blue 0;34
Green 0;32
Cyan 0;36
Red 0;31
Purple 0;35
Brown 0;33
Blue 0;34
Green 0;32
Cyan 0;36
Red 0;31
Purple 0;35
Brown 0;33
Replace digit 0 with 1 to get light color version.

Be careful! Goofing the escape codes can have very nasty or unpredictable result.

towheedm · 05-31-2012, 01:02 PM

If you're using BASH, open your ~/.bashrc file and look for the following lines:

Code:

# uncomment for a colored prompt, if the terminal has the capability; turned
# off by default to not distract the user: the focus in a terminal window
# should be on the output of commands, not on the prompt
#force_color_prompt=yes

Uncomment the last line:

Code:

force_color_prompt=yes

This will give you a colored prompt.

To change the default colors edit this line:

Code:

    PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '

Use the codes from the previous poster.

You can set the default colors for the ls commands with the dircolors command. Other commands such as find have their own color options.

Hope this helps.

porphyry5 · 05-31-2012, 01:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fatherwillow

How can I change the font color of the command line?

The first two answers relate to changing the color of your prompt, but not necessarily that of the text printed in the terminal. For that I googled <linux command line text color> and this is the first result
http://linux.byexamples.com/archives...-command-line/

craigevil · 05-31-2012, 01:13 PM

http://manual.siduction.org/en/term-...en.htm#colours

David the H. · 06-01-2012, 06:27 AM

Rather than playing guessing games, it would be better to hold back a bit and wait for the OP to clarify what he means.

As you can see, a simple one-line question that can be interpreted several ways is not a good question. If you want to get good, clear answers quickly, describe what you want in some detail, along with other possibly-relevant details about your environment, such as your distro, shell, and the console program you use to run it in (if any).

Please read How To Ask Questions The Smart Way, and try again.