Env setup for MAC OS X

1) Install package management tool "Homebrew" for MAC
http://brew.sh/

2) Configure the Terminal's background/foreground and text colors. 

• Default Foreground: 255/255/255
• Default Background: 51/51/51
• ANSI Black: 77/77/77
• ANSI Green: 152/251/152
• ANSI Yellow: 240/230/140
• ANSI Blue: 205/133/63
• ANSI Blue Bold 135/206/235
• ANSI Magenta: 255/222/173 or 205/92/92
• ANSI Cyan: 255/160/160
• ANSI Cyan Bold: 255/215/0
• ANSI White: 245/222/179

3) Customise and Highlight the console prompt of the terminal. Add the following line to ~/.bashrc

export PS1="\[\e[0;31m\]\u@\h\[\e[0;33m\]:\[\e[1;34m\]\w\[\e[1;37m\]$\[\e[m\]"

4) Configure the Terminal to execute .bashrc when startup.

Terminal -> Preferences -> Select the current profile -> Shell -> Run command (check the box of "Run inside shell")

5) Enhance the color of "ls" command
a) brew install xz coreutils
b) gdircolors --print-database >> ~/.dir_colors
c) add the following code to ~/.bashrc

if brew list |grep coreutils > /dev/null ;then 

PATH="$(brew --prefix coreutils)/libexec/gnubin:$PATH"    

aliasls='ls -F --show-control-chars --color=auto' 

eval`gdircolors -b $HOME/.dir_colors`

fi

References:
http://www.darkrune.org/blog/?p=213