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wizzard

Oct 27 2005, 05:17 PM

how can i change default colors of shell i mean i want that [root@wiz ~]# to apper with other colors (yellow or red)

znx

Oct 29 2005, 12:57 PM

that particular bit of your shell is the PS1 enviromental variable... you can set it like this:

CODE

export PS1="\[\033[01;33m\]\u@\h\[\033[01;34m\] \w $\[\033[00m\] "

Thats yellow with blue

If you like it then add the entry to the bottom of your "~/.bashrc" file..

Also I have a short howto hidden here

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~fac075/?howto

Note that
\033 == ^[ .. i'll need to add that to my howto...

Navrax

Mar 7 2006, 07:38 PM

QUOTE (znx @ Oct 29 2005, 06:57 AM)

that particular bit of your shell is the PS1 enviromental variable... you can set it like this:

CODE

export PS1="\[\033[01;33m\]\u@\h\[\033[01;34m\] \w $\[\033[00m\] "

Thats yellow with blue

If you like it then add the entry to the bottom of your "~/.bashrc" file..

Also I have a short howto hidden here

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~fac075/?howto

Note that
\033 == ^[ .. i'll need to add that to my howto...

So how do I make my text GREEN

znx

Mar 7 2006, 11:03 PM

QUOTE (Navrax @ Mar 7 2006, 06:38 PM)

So how do I make my text GREEN

32m = green .. so

CODE

export PS1="\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[01;34m\] \w $\[\033[00m\] "

thats green and blue

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