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Re: Colors.....




    Hi,

This is fragment from my .bashrc file where I set colors for each prompt
depending on exit status of the previous command.
Hope this will help.

Alex Rezinsky
Motorola Semiconductor Israel
alexr@msil.sps.mot.com

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# Colors
export fg_black=""
export fg_red=""
export fg_green=""
export fg_yellow=""
export fg_blue=""
export fg_magenta=""
export fg_cyan=""
export fg_white=""
export bg_black=""
export bg_red=""
export bg_green=""
export bg_yellow=""
export bg_blue=""
export bg_magenta=""
export bg_cyan=""
export bg_white=""
export normal=""

        set_promtp_colors()
        {
            if (( $? ))
            then
                prompt_beg=${bg_red}${fg_yellow}
                prompt_end=${normal}
            else
                prompt_beg=${bg_blue}${fg_yellow}
                prompt_end=${normal}
            fi
        }

PROMPT_COMMAND=set_promtp_colors
PS1=' \[${prompt_beg}\]<\!>\[${prompt_end}\] '


Jose I. Cabrera wrote:

> Does anyone knows how to put colors on the bash screen?  I have a nice
> utility called NTSh and it has great colors.  Anyone?
>
> thanks.
> jose
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