Color Coded Command Line

Last night while I was demoing, someone mentioned the colors I had on the command line and how it also denoted which GIT branch I was in. You can thanks James Sansbury (q0rban) for the code.

My instructions are biased towards MAC users. Sorry.

You need Git already installed for this to work.

In your terminal... //denotes my comments

//Find where your bash file is
ls ~/.bash_profile

//This returns "/Users/miche/.bash_profile" for me
//change directory (cd) to that path
cd /Users/miche

//Make sure you are there by "print working directory"
pwd

//Open the file in a commandline editor, like Nano, so we can edit it and add more stuff
nano .bash_profile

//If you are using Nano, arrow down to below the stuff that is in it and paste in:
//(If you aren't using nano, you are on your own for editing that file)
function parse_git_branch {
git branch --no-color 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/ (\1)/'
}
export PS1='\[\033[1;32m\]\h\[\033[0;33m\] \w\[\033[1;32m\]$(parse_git_branch)\[\033[00m\]: '

//For Nano, Save the file and answer yes to 'do you want to overwrite'
CTRL-O

//For Nano, Exit
CTRL-X

//Now CD into a folder that is under git source control and smile