Customize gnome-terminal and bash for Solarized Dark

gistfile1.txt

# Set dircolors for bash `ls` friendly for a dark solarized terminal
curl -o ~/.dircolors -L https://raw.github.com/seebi/dircolors-solarized/master/dircolors.ansi-dark
eval `dircolors ~/.dircolors`

# Checkout gnome-terminal solarized config
cd /tmp
git clone https://github.com/Anthony25/gnome-terminal-colors-solarized.git
cd gnome-terminal-colors-solarized
./set_dark.sh
cd /tmp; rm -rf gnome-terminal-colors-solarized

I was confused by this:

"
eval dircolors ~/.dircolors

"

dircolors is a command that reads the file we just downloaded to ~/.dircolors and it translates it for whatever shell you're using. eval is a shell built-in command that runs whatever you give it. The backticks runs the dircolors command and passes the output to the eval command.

You can just copy and paste this part. Obviously on a Mac you needn't do lines 6 through 10. Installing iTerm2 and selecting the Solarized Dark theme is sufficient.

I tweaked the curl line slightly since GitHub actually redirects the "direct" download link. The -L handles that.

@kevinkeeneyjr I was re-setting this up on a mac and realized that the dircolors command isn't available by default. I found a blog post [1] blog entry helpful to get it setup using homebrew.

[1] http://www.conrad.id.au/2013/07/making-mac-os-x-usable-part-1-terminal.html