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How do you customise the default colours in the shell? Say I want to make the standard cyan, magenta and yellow slightly lighter.

There is a method shown here for OS X Terminal using drag and drop with the colour picker, but how do you do it manually in the dotfiles (.bashrc .bash_profile .zshrc etc)?

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You should write which terminal client you use. – miloshadzic Sep 2 '09 at 7:54
Well, I am using OS X Terminal, but I want to make my prefs portable via a dotfiles repo like this github.com/ryanb/dotfiles/tree/master – user9848 Sep 4 '09 at 5:32
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Bash has nothing to do with it. The way colors are is depending on your terminal. If you're using OS X Terminal - you have to use its way to configure colors.

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Check into creating a .Xdefaults file on your home directory.

Here is a good .Xdefaults syntax guide: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xdefaults#Xdefaults%5Fsyntax

A snippet of my own .Xdefaults:

Xterm*background: wheat
Xterm*foreground: black
Xterm*scrollBar_right: true
Xterm*scrollTtyKeypress true
Xterm*colorBD: 1
Xterm*font: courier
Xterm*saveLines: 10000
Xterm*geometry: 120x50

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One thing you can do with bash alone is to have a different color on your prompt on different computers/accounts.

My prompt is red when I'm root for example.

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