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A while back, when Lion was in beta, @fyrabanks provided me with an updated IR_Black theme for Lion’s Terminal (original IR_Black article). Because Terminal now lets you change the colors, SIMBL is no longer required.

Install Theme

• Download the theme file here.
• Double click the IR_Black.terminal file, you downloaded, to install it.
• Set it to be the default (if you want to always use these settings).

Screenshots

Test Script

The following script will display the 16 colors in the terminal:
[zilla_alert style="white"]#!/bin/bash

echo -e “\033[0mCOLOR_NC (No color)"
echo -e "\033[1;37mCOLOR_WHITE\t\033[0;30mCOLOR_BLACK"
echo -e "\033[0;34mCOLOR_BLUE\t\033[1;34mCOLOR_LIGHT_BLUE"
echo -e "\033[0;32mCOLOR_GREEN\t\033[1;32mCOLOR_LIGHT_GREEN"
echo -e "\033[0;36mCOLOR_CYAN\t\033[1;36mCOLOR_LIGHT_CYAN"
echo -e "\033[0;31mCOLOR_RED\t\033[1;31mCOLOR_LIGHT_RED"
echo -e "\033[0;35mCOLOR_PURPLE\t\033[1;35mCOLOR_LIGHT_PURPLE"
echo -e "\033[0;33mCOLOR_YELLOW\t\033[1;33mCOLOR_LIGHT_YELLOW"
echo -e "\033[1;30mCOLOR_GRAY\t\033[0;37mCOLOR_LIGHT_GRAY"

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To install script:

• Copy the script to your workstation, name it colors
• Make it executable: chmod +x colors
• Run it: ./colors

Note: the color scheme I use for Vim in the screenshot above can be found here.