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How could I enable syntax highlighting on the shell and in emacs when I use Terminal.app on Mac OS X to ssh into other machines? Right now if I ssh and do an "ls" for example, directories are not shown in a different color from flat files, for example, and I'd like to fix that.

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Do you have a .bashrc or similar on those machines that you are ssh'ing to? I believe that is what you need, with something like alias ls="ls --color=auto" or alias ls="ls -G"(depending on your ls) in each (for ls; there are lots of other options to do other colors with other terminal programs).

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In OS X, you need to add alias ls="ls -G" to your ~/.bash_profile file. The file is originally hidden, so you'll need to either show hidden files in the Finder or use a program like Textmate that can open hidden files.

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Any program can open hidden files. Just press Cmd-Shift-. in the file dialog. – Daniel Beck Feb 8 '11 at 11:42
Whoa, I had no idea about that. Nice tip! – Scottie Feb 9 '11 at 10:03
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