Bash - colored command line

[JDlugosz]

Something I use on Windows with 4NT (and 4DOS and 4OS2 before that) is to display the command line input in yellow. On Bash, I find it hard to locate visually where the current bunch of output started, since it doesn't have a clear separator.

I'm not asking about how to colorize the prompt, though I guess that would help too. I mean if I have a xterm that looks like:

Compilation failed in require at test.perl line 28.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at test.perl line 28.
xxxxxxxxx$ perl test.perl document.txt  >docout.html
build_parser_rules called!  Text::Creole::InlineFormat
(?sx-im:(?<prematch>.*?)

The stuff I typed on the command prompt line is in a different color.

[oz]

Check the following HowTo article to see if it helps you achieve your objective:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Color_Bash_Prompt

It was written for Arch Linux users but should also work with other distributions.

[JDlugosz]

Yes, that helped. At the very end (I almost missed it, since it just seemed to be about using PS1 and colors) was a note on using a "debug trap" to change the color back after entering the command line.

Thanks for pointing that out!