I tried the fish shell, and love the fact that it does syntax colouring in the shell itself: 
Is there some way to do this in bash?
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I tried the fish shell, and love the fact that it does syntax colouring in the shell itself:
Is there some way to do this in bash?
Best Answer
Real time syntax coloring is a lot of work, especially with shells whose syntax is trickier than fish's. Only fish has it out of the box.
Zsh has syntax coloring if you install the zsh-syntax-highlighting add-on.
I'm not aware of any effort to do this with bash.