change cli font color

[Jeff_S]

I know this is kinda gay, but how do I change my cli's font color? When I was tooling around with my gentoo live cd, all the cli text is in various colors. I know there's an ls switch that show's it to you, but it'd be nice if it were always on.

thx

[dawgie]

I know this is kinda gay, but how do I change my cli's font color?
thx

No, it makes the cli much easier to use.

Edit your ~.bashrc file (/home/jeff/.bashrc)
to add these lines:

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     # enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases

        eval `dircolors -b`
        alias ls='ls --color=auto'

To do this system-wide, then root needs to edit the /etc/bash.bashrc file.

-Bob

[Jeff_S]

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, that did it.

Also found this handy tutorial:

http://www.hypexr.org/bash_tutorial.shtml#config