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		chrisBob on May 15, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OS X Command Line Utilities The biggest change I have found for my terminal was adding this to my .bash_profile: export CLICOLOR=1 export LSCOLORS=GxFxCxDxBxegedabagaced I thought that was one of the most amazing things when I used a linux system, but OS X is black and white by default.

tvon on May 15, 2014 [–]

`ls -G` will show colors with BSD ls, much like `ls --color' with GNU ls.

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