Make Your Mac Terminal More Personal

Terminal windows are usually pretty boring, but you can make them more personal by adding a welcome message and changing some colors.

To do so, open your terminal under Applications –> Utilities.

Then type : open -e ~/.profile (The file will open in the graphic text editor)

Go to the end of the file and add the red text:

echo -n “Current Time: “ (To Show The Current Time)
date

echo “Disk Usage:” (To Show the Disk Usage)
df -h

echo “Hello $USER “ (To Get an hello message of the Login user)

alias ls=’ls -G’ (To make ls run in Graphic mode – list with colors)

If you also want to change your prompt you can set the variable PS1 by adding export PS1=”your setting ” to .profile.

here is mine:

export PS1="e[0m#.e[0;31m@te[0;36m[u@h e[35mwe[0;36m] e[0m$ "

and it looks like that: 1.@11:50:26[User@User-MacBook /Users] $

I know that is looks scary, but it's pretty simple:

all the e[x;xm are for colors (range is: 40-47;30-37) you should play with this one

u will count the prompt lines for you

t is for time (you can also use @ For am/pm OR T for 12H format)

u is for current user

h is for host (you can also use H for full host name)

w is for full working directory (W will give you only the current directory)

This is just a simple example, you can do much more.

****For most linux systems the file would be .bashrc instead of .profile

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