Apple’s default settings for BASH are less than lovely — just shades of gray.

Here’s how to add color to BASH for your visual enjoyment.

Here’s what we’re going to create:

From Terminal, edit your .bash_profile:

vi ~/.bash_profile

Add to it:

export PS1="\[3[36m\]\u\[3[m\]@\[3[32m\]\h:\[3[33;1m\]\w\[3[m\]$ " export CLICOLOR=1
export LSCOLORS=ExFxBxDxCxegedabagacad
alias ls='ls -GFh'

Save the changes.

Reload your .bash_profile from Terminal:

. ~/.bash_profile