how to set color for preserved keywords, strings in unix terminal?

vaibhavs17 · 06-29-2012, 01:06 PM

Hi Friends,

I am new to linux terminal , could you please assist me how to set terminal colors for preserved keywords, string, variables?

Thanks,
Vaibhav

Kustom42 · 06-29-2012, 02:24 PM

Bash does have a built in "dircolors" functionality and some google searching on bash dircolors should give you some insight onto this as its a lot of info and kind of outside of what can be put into a single post.

Someone else may know of a better way to make certain strings show up as certain colors but I have never attempted or seen it in action.

Kustom42 · 06-29-2012, 02:27 PM

This is a good explanation of dircolors and how you can specify specific colors for directory listings:

http://systhread.net/texts/200703bashish.php/

I believe you can add these colors to other commands such as grep by aliasing grep to "grep --color" in your .bashrc or .bash_profile file.