The default shell for OpenBSD is ksh, and it looks a little monotonous:
To make its user-experience more friendly, I need to do some customizations:
(1) Modify the “Prompt String” to display the user name and current directory:
PS1='$USER:$PWD# '
(2) Install colorls package:
# pkg_add colorls
Use it to replace the shipped ls command:
alias ls='colorls -G'
(3) Change LSCOLORS environmental variable to make your favorite color. For example, I don’t want the directory is displayed in default blue, change it to magenta:
LSCOLORS=fxexcxdxbxegedabagacad
For detailed explanation of LSCOLORS, please refer manual of colorls:
# man colorls
......
LSCOLORS The value of this variable describes what color to use
for which attribute when colors are enabled with
CLICOLOR. This string is a concatenation of pairs of the
format fb, where f is the foreground color and b is the
background color.
The color designators are as follows:
a black
b red
......
This is my final modification of .profile:
......
PS1='$USER:$PWD# '
export PS1
LSCOLORS=fxexcxdxbxegedabagacad
export LSCOLORS
alias ls='colorls -G'
......
And this is the final effect:
References:
Add Color to Your Terminal;
Why doesn’t alias work in AIX (Korn shell, .profile)?;
ksh.kshrc.
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Maybe it’s a kind of electronic Stockholm Syndrome, but for _me_ the default is totally fine. I don’t see any need to call it “monstrous.”
What you’ve come up with is nice for sure (too many folks go way too far with customizing their terminal prompts) but I myself don’t feel the need to customize my profile and install third party software just to get dotfiles printed in purple.
Anyhow, keep up the nice OpenBSD coverage!
Couldn’t you create and export the variable in one shot, so that instead of having two lines for LSCOLORS and PS1, you could have one each? Of does OpenBSD’s ksh not support that?
Just my personal habit. 🙂
Ditto, but …
LSCOLORS=”GxExcxdxBxegedabagacad”
works better for me. Cyan folders/directories, red executables, blue sym links.
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Observation: ksh has many escape sequences built in.
They can be found in the man page, look for “PS1″
…
\A The current time, in 24-hour HH:MM format.
\u The current user’s username.
\v The current version of ksh.
\V Like `\v’, but more verbose.
\w The current working directory. $HOME is
abbreviated as `~’.
\W The basename of the current working directory.
$HOME is abbreviated as `~’.
…
So your PS1 could be written as
PS1=”\u:\W\$ ”
However, I have no informed opinion on the merits of using shell variables vs builtin ksh escapes.
This was very helpful to me, thanks.