How to quickly switch Mac OS X terminal background between black and white.

.bash_profile

# based on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/549186/change-background-of-terminal-app-from-the-commandline

function darkback {
  osascript -e "tell application \"Terminal\" to set background color of window 1 to {0,0,0}"
}

function lightback {
  osascript -e "tell application \"Terminal\" to set background color of window 1 to {65535,65535,65535}"
}