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Terminal colors

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Hi, can somebody please tell me how can i apply color for my terminal?
I need that letter will be colored like in backtrack3 or smthng like this...
root(blue)@(red)username(gray): cd ~/ (yellow)...
any ideas?
I'm only got colored -ls... :(

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Best Wyatt Smith (wyatt-smith) said : 		#1

Please read this thread from Ubuntu Forums.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=229991

Hope this helps

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Maze (mazebox) said : 		#2

see .bashrc:

# uncomment for a colored prompt, if the terminal has the capability; turned
# off by default to not distract the user: the focus in a terminal window
# should be on the output of commands, not on the prompt
# force_color_prompt=yes

uncomment this and enjoy!

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message (messaged) said : 		#3

Thanks Wyatt Smith, that solved my question.