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Created June 5, 2013 20:50
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Get the Terminal to display color-coded information about files and change the format/color of the prompt. This also aliases cd so that you get the contents of a directory whenever you cd into it.
export CLICOLOR=1
export LSCOLORS=ExFxBxDxCxegedabagacad
# ------------Color Aliases ---------------
BLACK="0;30"
GREEN="0;32"
CYAN="0;36"
RED="0;31"
PURPLE="0;35"
BROWN="0;33"
BLUE="0;34"
LITEGREEN="1;32"
LITECYAN="1;36"
LITERED="1;31"
LITEPURPLE="1;35"
LITEBROWN="1;33"
LITEBLUE="1;34"
#-------------End Color Aliases------------
#DEFAULTPROMPT="\\u@\h \\W\\$ "
PROMPT="[ \u@\w ] \$ "
PS1="\[\e[\$LITEGREEN m\]$PROMPT \[\e[m\]"
alias cd='cd;ls'
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