Prettify OS X console by coloring output? OS X terminal is not using colors for highlighting output from different commands, for example ls. 

When compared with other systems like Ubuntu, this is a big loss of accessibility/productivity.

What solutions do I have to improve this experience? For the moment I found only this guide for colored ls output under OS X but I am looking for a more complete solution.
you should change the Terminal.app preferences->advanced into xterm-color.
enter the following into your ~/.profile


for enable colored ls:

export CLICOLOR=1;
export LSCOLORS=exfxcxdxbxegedabagacad;


and from now, you will get colored ls output.