how to color each new command in terminal?

Question

As I am running commands in the terminal, some times when the resulted log is larg, I get lost looking for the command line it self.

And some times when I need to distinguish between logs of the previous command and logs of the command after ..

So, what's the recommended way to solve this issue? I thought about colors, but, I have no idea what to do or how to configure the terminal?

Is there another terminal which support colors, bold, or may be italic .. ??

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 29 '13 at 09:45

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To color each new command in terminal, you've to edit ~/.bashrc file. To do this,

gedit ~/.bashrc

Uncomment the line

# force_color_prompt=yes

to

force_color_prompt=yes

Then, You can restart the terminal or do

. ~/.bashrc

edited Jan 29 '13 at 09:45

Andrea Corbellini

answered Jan 29 '13 at 08:54

TheKojuEffect

so, do I have put the path for .bashrc? or ~ will find it? can you please explain what is the ~ ? – Samir Sabri Jan 29 '13 at 08:55
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~ stands for home folder like / stands for root folder. – TheKojuEffect Jan 29 '13 at 08:57
can I change the default color for background and text? – Samir Sabri Jan 29 '13 at 09:00
I've not tried that yet as I'm happy with the default. But you can try http://askubuntu.com/questions/218930/how-can-i-create-a-built-in-color-scheme-for-gnome-terminal/236229#236229 – TheKojuEffect Jan 29 '13 at 09:03

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