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Special Forums UNIX and Linux Applications Xfce terminal: colors Post 302471041 by teresaejunior on Thursday 11th of November 2010 09:07:49 PM
Old 11-11-2010
Again, because you've mentioned Xubuntu, I expected you to be using the "GNU coreutils" besides bash. The option --color=auto will output this error in MAC OS X, or BSD, for example, unless you download coreutils from gnu.org.

So, two things you might want to consider: reading the man page or help page for the ls command, if it supports colors.

Searching how you could use an alias in csh.

If you just want to get rid of "alias ls='ls --color=auto'" for bash, it is safer to edit the file .bashrc manually, it is a hidden file if you're using a graphical file manager. Remove the line containing "alias ls='ls --color=auto'". The command 'printf' is basically the same as 'echo'

For Mac, they explain how to install ls from GNU here: A better ls for Mac OS X | hocuspokus

For your own safety, you should beware whether you need to be logged in as root or not, I think you can install sudo too: Sudo Main Page
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

dircolors

DIRCOLORS(1)							   User Commands						      DIRCOLORS(1)

NAME

       dircolors - color setup for ls

SYNOPSIS

       dircolors [OPTION]... [FILE]

DESCRIPTION

       Output commands to set the LS_COLORS environment variable.

   Determine format of output:
       -b, --sh, --bourne-shell
	      output Bourne shell code to set LS_COLORS

       -c, --csh, --c-shell
	      output C shell code to set LS_COLORS

       -p, --print-database
	      output defaults

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

       If  FILE  is specified, read it to determine which colors to use for which file types and extensions.  Otherwise, a precompiled database is
       used.  For details on the format of these files, run `dircolors --print-database'.

AUTHOR

       Written by H. Peter Anvin.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report dircolors bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
       GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
       Report dircolors translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

       The full documentation for dircolors is maintained as a Texinfo manual.	If the info and dircolors programs are properly installed at  your
       site, the command

	      info coreutils 'dircolors invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.

GNU coreutils 8.12.197-032bb					  September 2011						      DIRCOLORS(1)
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