Life in 0 and 1 » Mac OSX http://lifein0and1.com My IT notebook... Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:17:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 HOWTO: Colors On Mac Terminal & Hash Checking (SHA1SUM & MD5SUM) http://lifein0and1.com/2011/11/07/howto-colors-on-mac-terminal-hash-checking-sha1sum-md5sum/ http://lifein0and1.com/2011/11/07/howto-colors-on-mac-terminal-hash-checking-sha1sum-md5sum/#comments Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:17:03 +0000 Mr. IT Guy colorcolor vicolor vimhashhowtomacmd5md5sumosxsha1sha1sumtermterminalvivimxterm http://lifein0and1.com/?p=234 Colorize
Why color? This will increase productivity and reduce eye strain. A quick look and you can get a quick overview of the content being displayed.

  • Enable colorized file listing (ls) – add “alias ls=’ls -G’” to ~/.bash_profile
  • Enable colorized vim
    1. Run “sudo vi /usr/share/vim/vimrc”
    2. Add the following lines to the top:
      syntax on
      filetype plugin on
      set ruler

Hash Checking
Add the following lines to your “~/.bash_profiles”:
alias md5='md5 -r'
alias md5sum='md5 -r'
alias sha1sum='openssl sha1'

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