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08-16-2007, 02:08 AM
unlazyfree

change color of text in shell

Is there a way to change the color of the font to neon green? :D
08-16-2007, 02:23 AM
balding_parrot

Quote:

Originally Posted by unlazyfree

Is there a way to change the color of the font to neon green? :D

For someone who is unlazyfree you sure didn't do much searching, did you ?

have a looksee here
08-16-2007, 02:34 AM
unlazyfree

Quote:

Originally Posted by balding_parrot

For someone who is unlazyfree you sure didn't do much searching, did you ?

have a looksee here

from what I read in there, it only would change the color of the bt ~#, not the entire text. I wanna keep the color of the bt ~# and change the output text color
08-16-2007, 02:43 AM
balding_parrot

The colourful pic at the top of the page and the script at the bottom seem to indicate otherwise.

Quote:

Text Properties

As previously mentioned, the '0' after the first escape sequence is the default color setting for the text of the shell prompt. For the text properties the following values make sense: 0, 1, 22, 4, 24, 5, 25, 7, 27 with the following meaning: default, bold, not bold, underlined, not underlined, blinking and not blinking, invers, not invers.

With the help of the following short script we can have a look at the color combinations.

Code:

#!/bin/sh ############################################################ # Nico Golde <nico(at)ngolde.de> Homepage: http://www.ngolde.de # Last change: Mon Feb 16 16:24:41 CET 2004 ############################################################ for attr in 0 1 4 5 7 ; do echo "----------------------------------------------------------------" printf "ESC[%s;Foreground;Background - \n" $attr for fore in 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37; do for back in 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47; do printf '\033[%s;%s;%sm %02s;%02s ' $attr $fore $back $fore $back done printf '\n' done printf '\033[0m' done
08-16-2007, 04:48 AM
operatorone

I hadn't even cared much about this but thanks to you parrot I played with it for a good 20 minutes. :P Seems to work as described.
08-16-2007, 05:17 AM
balding_parrot

Quote:

Originally Posted by operatorone

I hadn't even cared much about this but thanks to you parrot I played with it for a good 20 minutes. :P Seems to work as described.

Don't blame me ;) my input to this was 15 seconds to find the page to answer the original posters question :rolleyes: and another 20 seconds creating the post.:rolleyes:
08-16-2007, 06:11 PM
-=Xploitz=-

Way to go balding_parrot!. Now I've gone and jacked with my .bashrc and screwed it all up!! I fixed most of it, but i'm still a Linux Novice..and something told me not to **** with this..but did I listen?? NNOooooo! I need just a little help with this stuff. I did this command in an empty shell window...

export PS1="\[\e[36;1m\]\[\e[34;1m\]\H \[\e[0m\]"

and it made my "prompt" go from

{-=Xploitz=-} ~ #

to......

{-=Xploitz=-}

Which is what I want. But where do I put it my .bashrc when I do ..

nano /root/.bashrc

This is what it looks like after i tried to edit it with the above export PS1..etc..

Code:

# /etc/profile: This file contains system-wide defaults used by # all Bourne (and related) shells. # Set the values for some environment variables: export MINICOM="-c on" export MANPATH=/usr/local/man:/usr/man:/usr/X11R6/man export HOSTNAME="`cat /etc/HOSTNAME`" export LESSOPEN="|lesspipe.sh %s" export LESS="-M" # If the user doesn't have a .inputrc, use the one in /etc. if [ ! -r "$HOME/.inputrc" ]; then export INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc fi # Set the default system $PATH: PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/apache/bin:/usr/local/pgsql/bin:/opt/mono/bin:/usr/local/pgsql/bin:." # For root users, ensure that /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin, and /sbin are in # the $PATH. Some means of connection don't add these by default (sshd comes # to mind). if [ "`id -u`" = "0" ]; then echo $PATH | grep /usr/local/sbin 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null if [ ! $? = 0 ]; then PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:$PATH fi fi # I had problems using 'eval tset' instead of 'TERM=', but you might want to # try it anyway. I think with the right /etc/termcap it would work great. # eval `tset -sQ "$TERM"` if [ "$TERM" = "" -o "$TERM" = "unknown" ]; then TERM=linux fi # Set ksh93 visual editing mode: if [ "$SHELL" = "/bin/ksh" ]; then VISUAL=emacs # VISUAL=gmacs # VISUAL=vi fi # Set a default shell prompt: #PS1='`hostname`:`pwd`# ' if [ "$SHELL" = "/bin/pdksh" ]; then PS1='! $ ' elif [ "$SHELL" = "/bin/ksh" ]; then PS1='! ${PWD/#$HOME/~}$ ' elif [ "$SHELL" = "/bin/zsh" ]; then PS1='%n@%m:%~%# ' elif [ "$SHELL" = "/bin/ash" ]; then PS1='$ ' else #My colour additions (muts) #PS1="\u@\h:\w\$ " #PS1="\[\033[1;34m\]\u@\h:\w\$ \033[0m " #PS1='\[\e[34;1m\]\u@\h:\w\$ \[\e[0m\]' export PS1="\[\e[36;1m\]\[\e[34;1m\]\H \[\e[0m\]" fi PS2='> ' export PS1="\[\e[36;1m\]\[\e[34;1m\]\H \[\e[0m\]" # Default umask. A umask of 022 prevents new files from being created group # and world writable. umask 022 # Set up the LS_COLORS and LS_OPTIONS environment variables for color ls: if [ "$SHELL" = "/bin/zsh" ]; then eval `dircolors -z` elif [ "$SHELL" = "/bin/ash" ]; then eval `dircolors -s` else eval `dircolors -b` fi # Notify user of incoming mail. This can be overridden in the user's # local startup file (~/.bash.login or whatever, depending on the shell) if [ -x /usr/bin/biff ]; then biff y fi # Append any additional sh scripts found in /etc/profile.d/: for profile_script in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do if [ -x $profile_script ]; then . $profile_script fi done unset profile_script # For non-root users, add the current directory to the search path: if [ ! "`id -u`" = "0" ]; then PATH="$PATH:." fi

I know I don't have that in the right spot...so where do i put it?? I want it to be permanent. So upon boot up I don't have to type in export PS1="\[\e[36;1m\]\[\e[34;1m\]\H \[\e[0m\]" all the time. What I bolded is what I changed...lol..and now i fear I need to copy and paste someones "virgin" .bashrc over mine cause I ****ed with it 2 much. So could someone please post theirs up for me?? Thanks! :)

And finally.....@ unlazyfree :D

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2...te1976/fef.png
08-16-2007, 06:51 PM
balding_parrot

That's it blame me for your ineptitude.

Why did you not make a backup first, like you should do.

Give me a couple of minutes and I will get you a copy.
08-16-2007, 07:01 PM
PrairieFire

Quote:

Originally Posted by balding_parrot

That's it blame me for your ineptitude.

Why did you not make a backup first, like you should do.

Give me a couple of minutes and I will get you a copy.

At least this is more interesting than watching this slowly work.
08-16-2007, 07:07 PM
balding_parrot

Here you go Xploitz

Code:

# /etc/profile: This file contains system-wide defaults used by # all Bourne (and related) shells. # Set the values for some environment variables: export MINICOM="-c on" export MANPATH=/usr/local/man:/usr/man:/usr/X11R6/man export HOSTNAME="`cat /etc/HOSTNAME`" export LESSOPEN="|lesspipe.sh %s" export LESS="-M" # If the user doesn't have a .inputrc, use the one in /etc. if [ ! -r "$HOME/.inputrc" ]; then export INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc fi # Set the default system $PATH: PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/apache/bin:/usr/local/pgsql/bin:/opt/mono/bin:/usr/local/pgsql/bin:." # For root users, ensure that /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin, and /sbin are in # the $PATH. Some means of connection don't add these by default (sshd comes # to mind). if [ "`id -u`" = "0" ]; then echo $PATH | grep /usr/local/sbin 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null if [ ! $? = 0 ]; then PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:$PATH fi fi # I had problems using 'eval tset' instead of 'TERM=', but you might want to # try it anyway. I think with the right /etc/termcap it would work great. # eval `tset -sQ "$TERM"` if [ "$TERM" = "" -o "$TERM" = "unknown" ]; then TERM=linux fi # Set ksh93 visual editing mode: if [ "$SHELL" = "/bin/ksh" ]; then VISUAL=emacs # VISUAL=gmacs # VISUAL=vi fi # Set a default shell prompt: #PS1='`hostname`:`pwd`# ' if [ "$SHELL" = "/bin/pdksh" ]; then PS1='! $ ' elif [ "$SHELL" = "/bin/ksh" ]; then PS1='! ${PWD/#$HOME/~}$ ' elif [ "$SHELL" = "/bin/zsh" ]; then PS1='%n@%m:%~%# ' elif [ "$SHELL" = "/bin/ash" ]; then PS1='$ ' else #My colour additions (muts) #PS1="\u@\h:\w\$ " #PS1="\[\033[1;34m\]\u@\h:\w\$ \033[0m " #PS1='\[\e[34;1m\]\u@\h:\w\$ \[\e[0m\]' PS1='\[\033[01;31m\]\h \[\033[01;34m\]\W \$ \[\033[00m\]' fi PS2='> ' export PATH DISPLAY LESS TERM PS1 PS2 # Default umask. A umask of 022 prevents new files from being created group # and world writable. umask 022 # Set up the LS_COLORS and LS_OPTIONS environment variables for color ls: if [ "$SHELL" = "/bin/zsh" ]; then eval `dircolors -z` elif [ "$SHELL" = "/bin/ash" ]; then eval `dircolors -s` else eval `dircolors -b` fi # Notify user of incoming mail. This can be overridden in the user's # local startup file (~/.bash.login or whatever, depending on the shell) if [ -x /usr/bin/biff ]; then biff y fi # Append any additional sh scripts found in /etc/profile.d/: for profile_script in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do if [ -x $profile_script ]; then . $profile_script fi done unset profile_script # For non-root users, add the current directory to the search path: if [ ! "`id -u`" = "0" ]; then PATH="$PATH:." fi

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