Style - how it looks

Add the real world tested Solarized (dark/light) Terminal profiles: https://github.com/tomislav/osx-terminal.app-colors-solarized

After cloning the repo, just open the profile files, which will add them to your Terminal.app preferences

You can set them as the default profiles on your Terminal.app preferences

To enable the terminal colors, add the line export CLICOLOR=1 to your .bash_profile

Function - what it does

Grab the .bash_profile here: https://gist.github.com/lopespm/3877ff1ca4064a392686, which is heavily based on Nathaniel Landau’s profile

In OSX, .bash_profile is executed everytime you open a new Terminal window, and it lives in your user’s home directory, i.e. ~/.bash_profile

If it does not exist, just touch ~/.bash_profile to create it

to create it If you do not want to clutter your .bash_profile, you can create a file like ~/scripts/utilities.bash with the portions you find useful and then add this line to your .bash_profile: source ~/scripts/utilities.bash

Hopefully now your Terminal is even more inviting :)