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KidLoco

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Oct 6, 2004
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I have this issue on two Macs with El Capitan OS X 10.11 installed. My Terminal sessions, regardless of which profile I use, does not show different colors or bold text. I tried searching for a solution but a lot of them seem a little too advanced for me and I'd rather not install anything new if I don't have to. How do I fix this to get multiple colors and bold text back?

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simon lefisch

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I have this issue on two Macs with El Capitan OS X 10.11 installed. My Terminal sessions, regardless of which profile I use, does not show different colors or bold text. I tried searching for a solution but a lot of them seem a little too advanced for me and I'd rather not install anything new if I don't have to. How do I fix this to get multiple colors and bold text back?

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KidLoco

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Oct 6, 2004
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Correct. After I upgraded to 10.11 (including one erase all/install) I'm only seeing one color. This is happening on two of my machines.
 

simon lefisch

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Correct. After I upgraded to 10.11 (including one erase all/install) I'm only seeing one color. This is happening on two of my machines.
Open your bash profile

Code:
nano ~/.bash_profile

Copy/paste the following code:

Code:
export PS1="\[\033[36m\]\u\[\033[m\]@\[\033[32m\]\h:\[\033[33;1m\]\w\[\033[m\]\$ "
export CLICOLOR=1
export LSCOLORS=ExFxBxDxCxegedabagacad

Press Control X
Select 'Y' for yes

Good to go.
 
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