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Old 07-03-2012
Change / Setup bash custom prompt (PS1)
I am trying to create my custom prompt and I have almost succeeded. Right now I have
HTML Code:
PS1='\n\[\e[0;31m\][\t @\u \W]\$\[\e[0m\] '
What I have not figured out is how to make the directories bold when I'm using commands ls or ls -la.
Any idea how to do it???
Many thanx.
# 2  
Old 07-03-2012
Hi emailkia,

Welcome to the forum.

If you are using GNU ls, you could set --color extension to coloring the stuffs.
You can set an alias in your ".profile" or ".bashrc" for ls to ls --color
Code:
alias ls='ls --color'

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Old 07-04-2012
Doesn't work
Quote:
Originally Posted by clx
Hi emailkia,

Welcome to the forum.

If you are using GNU ls, you could set --color extension to coloring the stuffs.
You can set an alias in your ".profile" or ".bashrc" for ls to ls --color
Code:
alias ls='ls --color'

@clx, thank you for reply and for your welcome.
It didn't work for me. I am using Mac os x Lion which is basically a Unix machine (Darwin) with a GNU Bash version 3.2.48 as you might know. And I don't want to make all "ls" output colored but just the directories so I can easily differ between files and directories.

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Originally Posted by emailkia
I am trying to create my custom prompt and I have almost succeeded. Right now I have
HTML Code:
PS1='\n\[\e[0;31m\][\t @\u \W]\$\[\e[0m\] '
What I have not figured out is how to make the directories bold when I'm using commands ls or ls -la.
Any idea how to do it???
Many thanx.

I got it Smilie
It works as following, an example:
export CLICOLOR=1
export LSCOLORS=ExFxCxDxBxegedabagacadd
yippiii
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