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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers dirs & colors Post 3910 by Andy Hibbins on Friday 13th of July 2001 12:04:49 PM
Old 07-13-2001
Hi,



if you're using the bash shell you could create an alias for the "ls" command using the color option to differentiate file types.



i.e. in your ~/.bash_profile file add



alias ls='ls --color="always"'

On my system the colours for different file types are a follows:



executable files green

archive files (.gz,.zip,etc,) red

ascii files white

jpgs,bmp files magenta

symbolic links cyan

directories blue



I'm not sure if you can change the colours for different file types.





Andy Hibbins Smilie
 

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setcolor(1F)							   FMLI Commands						      setcolor(1F)

NAME
setcolor - redefine or create a color SYNOPSIS
setcolor color red_level green_level blue_level DESCRIPTION
The setcolor command takes four arguments: color, which must be a string naming the color; and the arguments red_level, green_level, and blue_level, which must be integer values defining, respectively, the intensity of the red, green, and blue components of color. Intensities must be in the range of 0 to 1000. If you are redefining an existing color, you must use its current name (default color names are: black, blue, green, cyan, red, magenta, yellow, and white). setcolor returns the color's name string. EXAMPLES
Example 1 A sample output of setcolor command. The following is an example of the arguments that setcolor takes: `setcolor blue 100 24 300` BUILT-IN FMLI ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
attributes(5) SunOS 5.11 5 Jul 1990 setcolor(1F)
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