add-terminal-color.md

Giving the Terminal Color

To ease navigating within a command line interface, you can add color to the terminal prompt, folders, and files so that your eye can process information quickly.

1. You can add the following command to the end of your ~/.bashrc file:

You can use vim to add the line into the ~/.bashrc file.

PS1='\[\033[1;36m\]\u\[\033[1;31m\]@\[\033[1;32m\]\h:\[\033[1;35m\]\w\[\033[1;31m\]\$\[\033[0m\] '

Your ~/.bashrc file would look something like this:

# .bashrc

# Source global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
        . /etc/bashrc
fi

# Uncomment the following line if you don't like systemctl's auto-paging feature:
# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=

# User specific aliases and functions
PS1='\[\033[1;36m\]\u\[\033[1;31m\]@\[\033[1;32m\]\h:\[\033[1;35m\]\w\[\033[1;31m\]\$\[\033[0m\] '

2. Apply effects

To add the effect refresh your terminal with the new ~/.bashrc file:

source ~/.bashrc