From: alexr AT aurora DOT sps DOT mot DOT com (Alex Rezinsky)
Subject: Re: Colors.....
10 Sep 1998 14:16:12 -0700
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To: "Jose I. Cabrera" <cabrera AT wrc DOT xerox DOT com>
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    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 AT msil DOT sps DOT mot DOT 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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