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Salve Håkedal

2006-09-24, 7:14 am

I run Sarge.

Where is the colors for xterm or virtual terminal defined.
Say if I want directories listed with green color instead
of blue, and the other filetypes in different colors than
the current color?
Mumia W. (reading news)

2006-09-24, 7:14 am

On 09/24/2006 01:45 AM, Salve Håkedal wrote:
> I run Sarge.
>
> Where is the colors for xterm or virtual terminal defined.
> Say if I want directories listed with green color instead
> of blue, and the other filetypes in different colors than
> the current color?


The program dircolors outputs code to set the LS_COLORS environment
variable (which ls uses to display colors).

In Debian Sarge, dircolors is invoked from within ~/.bashrc

Do a "man dircolors." You'll probably want to use the --print-database
option to save the built-in list of colors to a file, then you'll make
your changes in that file and change ~/.bashrc to invoke dircolors with
the name of your changed colors file.

HTH

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Salve Håkedal

2006-09-24, 1:13 pm

On 2006-09-24, Mumia W. (reading news) wrote:
> On 09/24/2006 01:45 AM, Salve Håkedal wrote:
>
> The program dircolors outputs code to set the LS_COLORS environment
> variable (which ls uses to display colors).
>
> In Debian Sarge, dircolors is invoked from within ~/.bashrc
>
> Do a "man dircolors." You'll probably want to use the --print-database
> option to save the built-in list of colors to a file, then you'll make
> your changes in that file and change ~/.bashrc to invoke dircolors with
> the name of your changed colors file.
>
> HTH
>

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