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Here is a nice tip to get your OS X terminal prompt a bit more colourful and useful (by using less space and standing out from stdout more). Just add this to your ~/.bash_profile

#added by Tim
export EDITOR=vim
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/graphviz/bin/
#set the colour of the prompt
GREEN=’\[\033[1;32m\]’
PURPLE=’\[\033[1;35m\]’
RESET=’\[\033[00m\]’
PS1=”${PURPLE}[${GREEN}\W${PURPLE}]${RESET} “