How to Add Directory Colors to OS X’s Terminal

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.

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