HomeSetup

The ultimate Terminal experience

HomeSetup ColorLS

The ultimate Terminal experience

Setup

macOS Users

If you are a macOS user you may have problems installing colorls using the default gem application. If that’s the case you can follow the instructions below to install it:

Assuming HomeSetup is installed

brew install ruby

Identify lines resembling the examples below:

If you need to have ruby first in your PATH, run: echo ‘export PATH=”/usr/local/opt/ruby/bin:$PATH”’ » /Users//.bash_profile

Now add the path to you PATH using the command below. Please do not touch the .bash_profile file,

paths -a /usr/local/opt/ruby/bin

Linux Users

If you are a Linux user, you can install ColorLS following the instructions here

Final result

After properly installed, your new ls will look like this:

If you wish to use HomeSetup’s ls configuration files you can run:

rm -rf $(dirname $(gem which colorls))/yaml
reload

The HomeSetup ls should look like this: