How to print color text in AIX?

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Thank you. It is still showing me the file and directory names in black and white colour.
I have no clue how to change the names. May be someone has.

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NehaJi, I think, you want to see "ls" output in colors. AIX doesn't support colors in the output of ls. You have 2 options:

Write your own ls
Port GNU ls to AIX

Both options are not so difficult and will bring eternal honor to you but only among Linux fans in AIX world.

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