Mac OS X Lion Terminal.app not showing ANSI colors on Linux – here’s a fix
Connecting to Linux node from Mac’s Terminal.app and not seeing ANSI colors? Here’s a fix:
On your target Linux node check your /etc/DIR_COLORS file (or equivalent):
root:[/root]# grep TERM /etc/DIR_COLORS # Below, there should be one TERM entry for each termtype that is colorizable TERM linux TERM console TERM con132x25 TERM con132x30 TERM con132x43 TERM con132x60 TERM con80x25 TERM con80x28 TERM con80x30 TERM con80x43 TERM con80x50 TERM con80x60 TERM cons25 TERM xterm TERM rxvt TERM xterm-color TERM color-xterm TERM vt100 TERM dtterm TERM color_xterm TERM ansi TERM screen TERM screen.linux TERM kon TERM kterm TERM gnome TERM konsole root:[/root]#
Make sure the “TERM” definition in this file matches your Terminal.app Preferences-> Advanced -> Emulation Options:
By default the Terminal Emulation was set to “term-256color” and that option is not recognized in /etc/DIR_COLORS.
And if you want ANSI colors for ls -l to work in your MAC terminal on your local MAC machine add the following to your $HOME/.bash_profile:
alias ls='ls -G'
REFERENCE:
Where is ‘ls = ls –color=tty’ alias defined on Linux
IR_Black for OS X Lion
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