On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Kali McLaughlin wrote: > > On many distributions, filetypes are color coded. > > When I do ls, or any derivative, all executable files > > are shown green. Tarballs, rpm files, and anything > > compressed, shows up red. Directories are blue. > > Graphic files are magenta. Links are teal. > > This feature makes the whole thing really clear excep that directory names are in a >very dark > blue which is hard to read. I think the configuration file allows this > to be altered. I must have a try.
'man dircolors' should get you started, though the full documentation is apparently no longer maintained in the man pages. For that, you need to have 'info' installed, and do 'info dircolors'. :-/ - Steve
