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Old 06-06-2008
Terminal colors
Hi,
is there a way to change the colors used in ls --color=always?

I tried to define LSCOLOR and CLICOLOR but it doesn't work!


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# 2  
Old 06-06-2008
With GNU ls you can create an alias in your .bashrc:

Code:
alias ls='ls --color=auto'

Regards
# 3  
Old 06-06-2008
Sorry! That wasn't my problem!

Anyway I've found a solution to fix it! Here it is:

CLICOLOR=1
LSCOLORS=gxfxcxdxbxegedabagacad
export CLICOLOR LSCOLORS

These few lines (add them in the /etc/profile) change the colors used to display ls results (directories, files, links, ...); in particular this hint changes the dark blue for the directories! I use a dark background and they are not readable on it!



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