On 2009-02-08, donglongchao <donglongc...@163.com> wrote: > Dear Sir or Madam: I have a wonderful idea about > Bash(GNU bash version 3.2.39(1)-release > (i486-pc-linux-gnu)). > > When I use tools like 'cat' or some other commands > like this,I find it hard to specify where the file
you probably mean 'identify' not 'specify' > that I 'cat' begins because the command I typed > just now was mixed with the file I want to read and > they look like the same. > > So I think if we could add special color such as > red or green to the command lines we typed before > to mark them,just like the different colors on > different kinds of files and catalogues,it will be > much easier for us to tell where the file we want > to read begins. 'man bash' and read about PS1 (the primary bash prompt). There are hundreds of ways to color output, used for all sorts of things; a very recent example from my life is at http://sitaramc.github.com/images/git-completion-plus.png -- every command line in that screenshot is colored in some way. As an example, the PS1 I use is: PS1='\[\e[32m\]\t\[\e30m\] \h:\W \$ \[\e[m\]'
