Mac: Colorful Terminal

To get a colorful Terminal, there are several places to config:

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Terminal/iTerm2

1). Download Solarized.

$ git clone git://github.com/altercation/solarized.git

2).
a) If you are using Terminal.app:
Double click Solarized Dark ansi.terminal and Solarized Light ansi.terminal in solarized/osx-terminal.app-colors-solarized
Then, two kinds of color-theme(Solarized Dark and Solarized Light) will be imported to Terminal.app

This is my configuration with Terminal.app:

b) If you are using iTerm2:
Double click Solarized Dark.itermcolors and Solarized Light.itermcolors in solarized/iterm2-colors-solarized
Then, two kinds of color-theme configuration files will be imported to iTerm2

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Vim

In order to use the same color-theme in vim, use the configuration below:

$ cd solarized
$ cd vim-colors-solarized/colors
$ mkdir -p ~/.vim/colors
$ cp solarized.vim ~/.vim/colors/

$ vi ~/.vimrc
syntax enable
set background=dark
colorscheme solarized

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ls

1). Use Homebrew to install Coreutils

$ brew install xz coreutils

NOTE: If Homebrew did not installed, then you have to install it first(see below):

$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)"

More detail: brew home page

2). Generate color config file

$ gdircolors --print-database > ~/.dir_colors

3). Add the code below into ~/.bash_profile

if brew list | grep coreutils > /dev/null ; then
  PATH="$(brew --prefix coreutils)/libexec/gnubin:$PATH"
  alias ls='ls -F --show-control-chars --color=auto'
  eval `gdircolors -b $HOME/.dir_colors`
fi

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grep

Add the code below into ~/.bash_profile

alias grep='grep --color'
alias egrep='egrep --color'
alias fgrep='fgrep --color'

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Reference

http://www.vpsee.com/2013/09/use-the-solarized-color-theme-on-mac-os-x-terminal/
http://linfan.info/blog/2012/02/27/colorful-terminal-in-mac/