Coloring directories and files under a terminal?

sud_crow · 2004-12-18 19:09:26

Hi everyone,

I know, and have the option running, that with the ls --color=auto i get colored files, but... i want to be able to colour my self the different type of files, (like brown for zip, tgz and such, blue for avi, mp3, ogg... see the idea?)

Does anyone have a clue on how to acomplish this?

cactus · 2004-12-18 22:01:48

On some systems you can just edit /etc/DIR_COLORS

Arch appears to use a binary program /bin/dircolors. Running that produces this output:

~)$ dircolors
LS_COLORS='no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:
bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:
*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:
*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:
*.bmp=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:
*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:
*.mpeg=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.xcf=01;35:*.xwd=01;35:
*.ogg=01;35:*.mp3=01;35:*.wav=01;35:';
export LS_COLORS

You could trying setting LS_COLORS in your .bashrc file and make the appropriate changes.

dp · 2004-12-18 23:56:34

cactus wrote:

On some systems you can just edit /etc/DIR_COLORS
Arch appears to use a binary program /bin/dircolors.

the normal way to use dircolors is this:

make a /etc/DIR_COLORS and add to your /etc/profile at the end this

eval `dircolors /etc/DIR_COLORS`

if you need a template for /etc/DIR_COLORS, here is mine:

http://daperi.home.solnet.ch/linux/etc/DIR_COLORS

sud_crow · 2004-12-19 18:29:34

Thanks a lot both, ill be giving it a try as soon as i can.

thanks again!

dk · 2004-12-20 05:52:02

I just took dp's DIR_COLOR template saved it as

~/.dircolors

Then in my .bashrc file I added

eval `dircolors -b ~/dircolors`

just above alias ls='ls --color=auto'

Be sure to edit/add your TERM in ~/.dircolors

I use aterm so I added

TERM rxvt

That was kind of a gotcha..I guess aterm uses rxvt

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Coloring directories and files under a terminal?

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Re: Coloring directories and files under a terminal?

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