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Color Scheme for the command line of bash

May 29, 2018 David Yin

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When I install the Ubuntu server and ssh to the server, the default shell is bash.

It looks like below.

I prefer to have a colorful terminal window. So I goole it and find the solution:

PS1='\[\033[1;36m\]\u\[\033[1;31m\]@\[\033[1;32m\]\h:\[\033[1;35m\]\w\[\033[1;31m\]\$\[\033[0m\] '

source ~/.bashrc

After that, the terminal window changed as below:

The user name, host name, path have different colors.

May 29, 2017 David Yin

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I have the .bashrc file, but it is not loading when I connect my VPS through SSH.

The content of .bashrc looks like below:

alias ls='ls --color=auto'
force_color_prompt=yes
PS1='\[\033[1;36m\]\u\[\033[1;31m\]@\[\033[1;32m\]\h:\[\033[1;35m\]\w\[\033[1;31m\]\$\[\033[0m\] '

It provides a colorful terminal look.