Re: terminal colors
You can use ANSI escape sequences.
For instance, in my .bash_profile my prompt is defined as:
PS1="\[\033[1;33m\][\033[0m\]\[\033[1;32m\]\u\[\033[0m\]\[\033[1;34m\]@\[\033[0m\]\[\033[1;32m\]\h\[\033[0m\]:\w\[\033[1;33m\]]\033[0m\]\$ "
More information can be found here:
http://www.dreaming.org/~giles/bashprompt/howto/c341.html
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On a remote moon of Endor, Brian Fallik's voice echoed:
> Hi. I'm having problems getting colors to appear in my BASH prompt in Woody
> (3.0). This is on a fresh install I just finished today. I've made very
> few changes to the system so far.
>
> When I ssh (protocol v2) into my debian server, the prompt is monochrome.
> I've tried to export the TERM variable several times using xterm-color,
> linux, xterm-debian, and xtermc in .bashrc and .bash_profile. I've also
> tried these same settings in the terminal-type string setting in putty.
> Nothing works.
>
> However, once I'm ssh'ed into the server, if I su to the same account the
> bash prompt is in color. echo $TERM produces the same output (the putty
> setting) in both cases.
>
> Any suggestion on how to fix this? I've scoured google, google groups, and
> debianhelp.org to no avail. What are other good resources I can use to
> resolve this?
>
> I don't subscribe to this list so please copy me directly on any replies.
>
> Thanks,
> brian
>
>
>
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