It really helps me to see different types of entries in the Terminal listed with different colors. I don’t go for listing everything that you can list as a different color though, as it starts looking a bit like a circus in Terminal when I do. If you want to colorize your terminal in Mac OS X there are two main ways to do so; both will require altering your .bash_profile (or creating if it’s not already there). To get started, go to your home folder from within Terminal and open .bash_profile from your favorite text editor. If it doesn’t exist then the text editor should create a new file…
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Adding Man Pages
There are a number of man pages in Mac OS X that don’t show up when you type man followed by the command – especially if you’ve gone and started bolting new open source software onto your OS that keeps its man page in its own directory structure. If you have the path to a directory of man pages then you can view these using the man command easily once you add it to your MANPATH. The MANPATH is an environment variable that can be set by editing a users .bash_profile directory. Simply add the directory you’d like to scan in a new line that starts with MANPATH=. For example…