I set up colors using the following lines. in my .bashrc or .bash_profile alias ls="ls --color=auto" eval `dircolors ~/.dircolors`
and I've attached my .dircolors -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] ktb wrote: > I've set the folowing alias up, > > l="ls --color=always -alF" > > I like the coloration except my executables are in a light green color > and I can barely see them. I looked a the 'ls' man page specifically > the, "DISPLAY COLORIZATION" section. It says you can use "LS_COLORS" to > change a default color. Anyway the instructions are vague or I'm just > not getting it. I thought something like this from the command line > might work, > > ls -alF --color LS_COLORS "ex=36" > > but that didn't work. It seems like maybe <LS_COLORS "ex=36"> should go > in a file or something that 'ls' would read. I just don't know. Anyone > know how to do this? > Thanks, > kent > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
# Configuration file for dircolors, a utility to help you set the # LS_COLORS environment variable used by GNU ls with the --color option. # The keywords COLOR, OPTIONS, and EIGHTBIT (honored by the # slackware version of dircolors) are recognized but ignored. # Below, there should be one TERM entry for each termtype that is colorizable TERM linux TERM linux-c TERM console TERM con132x25 TERM con132x30 TERM con132x43 TERM con132x60 TERM con80x25 TERM con80x28 TERM con80x30 TERM con80x43 TERM con80x50 TERM con80x60 TERM xterm TERM xterm-debian TERM rxvt TERM screen TERM vt100 TERM ansi # Below are the color init strings for the basic file types. A color init # string consists of one or more of the following numeric codes: # Attribute codes: # 00=none 01=bold 04=underscore 05=blink 07=reverse 08=concealed # Text color codes: # 30=black 31=red 32=green 33=yellow 34=blue 35=magenta 36=cyan 37=white # Background color codes: # 40=black 41=red 42=green 43=yellow 44=blue 45=magenta 46=cyan 47=white NORMAL 00 # global default, although everything should be something. FILE 00 # normal file DIR 01;33 # directory LINK 01;04;36 # symbolic link FIFO 40;33 # pipe SOCK 01;35 # socket BLK 30;43;01 # block device driver CHR 30;43;01 # character device driver ORPHAN 47;31;05 # symlink to nonexistent file # This is for files with execute permission: EXEC 01;32 # List any file extensions like '.gz' or '.tar' that you would like ls # to colorize below. Put the extension, a space, and the color init string. # (and any comments you want to add after a '#') # If you use DOS-style suffixes, you may want to uncomment the following: .cmd 00;32 # executables (dim green) .exe 00;32 .com 00;32 .btm 00;32 .bat 00;32 .tar 00;31 # archives or compressed (red) .tgz 00;31 .arj 00;31 .taz 00;31 .lzh 00;31 .zip 00;31 .z 00;31 .Z 00;31 .gz 00;31 .GZ 00;31 .deb 01;31 # rpms or debs (bright red) .rpm 01;31 .bin 00;41;30 .iso 00;41;30 .jpg 01;35 # image formats (magenta) .gif 01;35 .GIF 01;05;35 #capitalized extensions blink so I fix them .bmp 01;35 .ppm 01;35 .tga 01;35 .xbm 01;35 .xpm 01;35 .tif 01;35 .pdf 01;35 .mpg 01;35 #movies .avi 01;35 .mov 01;35 .gl 01;37 .dl 01;37 .mp3 01;34 #sounds .MP3 01;05;34 .wav 01;34 .html 00;44;33 #webpages and html, (blue on yellow) .cgi 00;44;33 .asp 00;44;33 .conf 01;36 #config files are cyan .cfg 01;36 .config 01;36 .*rc 01;36 *rc 01;36 .so 00;46;30 #libraries are black on cyan *.so.* 00;46;30 *.so.*.* 00;46;30 *.so.*.*.* 00;46;30
