How to Add Directory Colors to OS X’s Terminal

By Daniel Miessler on December 7th, 2008: Tagged as OS X | Technology

It’s kind of annoying that ls --color doesn’t work in OS X. Fortunately you can get the same effect by adding the following to your .bash_profile :

export CLICOLOR=true

Edit: Evidently you can do this with the -G switch to ls as well. Thanks for the tip, Joel.

  • Joel

    The switch you’re looking for is ‘-G’.

    ls -lG

  • Joel

    The switch you’re looking for is ‘-G’.

    ls -lG

  • Ben L

    This is because OS X uses BSD ls.

  • Ben L

    This is because OS X uses BSD ls.

  • Adrian Bool

    A related set of env variables I stumbled upon a day or two ago… very handy…

    export GREP_OPTIONS='–color=auto'
    export GREP_COLOR='1;33'

  • Adrian Bool

    A related set of env variables I stumbled upon a day or two ago… very handy…

    export GREP_OPTIONS='–color=auto'
    export GREP_COLOR='1;33'

  • Adrian Bool

    A related set of env variables I stumbled upon a day or two ago… very handy…

    export GREP_OPTIONS='–color=auto'
    export GREP_COLOR='1;33'


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