So I followed this thread (Changing terminal color) and got all of the colors working for directories and such, except however, for normal files such as a Gemfile or .txt files or .java files or .rb files etc… I was wondering how I can get normal files to show up in color, even better if I can get different extensions of the file to show up in different colors as well. Let me know if you guys have any resources for this.
MacOS – Changing terminal colors for normal files when ls -G or within .bash_profile
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bplist means binary property list, which can be converted to XML with plutil -convert xml1. Inside each plist for a color is another data key for the fractional RGB values.
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -x -c 'Print "Window Settings":"My Theme"' ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist|tr -d '\n\t'|grep -o '[^>]*</key><data>[^<]*'|while read l;do echo ${l%%<*} $(base64 -D<<<${l##*>}|plutil -convert xml1 - -o -|awk '/<data>/{getline;print}'|tr -d '\t'|base64 -D);done
The output looks like this:
ANSIBlueColor 0.4769933663 0.4769933663 0.9314516129
ANSICyanColor 0.2666655827 0.8165705831 0.8588709677
ANSIGreenColor 0.428833897 0.8508064516 0.490967087
ANSIMagentaColor 0.9072580645 0.4499707336 0.9072580645
ANSIRedColor 0.9072580645 0.508503512 0.508503512
ANSIYellowColor 0.9072580645 0.9072580645 0.3914379553
CursorColor 0.9998760223 0.999984026 0.999786377
SelectionColor 0.3899414837 0.4639441073 0.5917825699
TextBoldColor 0.9441435337 0.4102420509 0.427282244
TextColor 1 0.99997437 0.9999912977
The bright green, yellow, blue, and cyan foreground colors seem to be almost the same as the default foreground color:
Or if you were expecting the themes to add colors to new places, they don't. They are Terminal settings files just change some of the settings that can also be changed from Terminal's preferences. You can make ls use colors with something like export CLICOLOR= LSCOLORS=dxfxcxdxbxegedabagacad.
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I don't think colorizing the file names of regular files is possible with
lsalone (i.e. without postprocessing the output with another script):The manual page for
ls(shown when you typeman ls) does not mention this possibility.I would expect that the
lscoming with Mac OS X is very similar to the BSD version ofls, since there seems to be little motivation for Apple to make changes in this area. The source code for BSD'slsis available online, e.g. the FreeBSD version is on GitHub. The function which selects the color for a file name iscolortype()in the source filebin/ls/print.c. And checking the source code it is clear that at least the BSD version oflsdoes not have the ability to change color when printing the names of a regular file.