[arch-general] Colored Output

[Daniel Griffiths]

On 02/04/2010 11:48 AM, Carlos Williams wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Andrew Antle<andrew.antle at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> As root, create the file `$HOME/.bash_profile` with the content:
>>
>>   . $HOME/.bashrc
>>
>> This file is in `/etc/skel` as well.
>>      
> So I need to do the following?
>
> cd /root
> echo ".$HOME/.bashrc">>  /root/.bash_profile
>
> I don't get what I am pointing at in the '.bash_profile' file. Am I
> suppose to create a .bashrc file in /root?
>
>    
That's the traditional way to do it.