On Wednesday 17 October 2007 16:27:16 Bryen wrote:
> Is there a way to disable color coding in the 'ls' command permanently?
> It's giving me such lovely colors across my gnome-terminal but very
> unreadable with my sight. :-)
Usually "ls" is an alias to "/bin/ls", but with some additional options.
Try "alias ls" what they are on your system.
On mine, I get
alias ls='ls $LS_OPTIONS'
where LS_OPTIONS="-N --color=tty -T 0". This is set in /etc/bash.bashrc.
You can temper with this file, but the easiest way to disable colors
permanently is to create an empty ".dir_colors" file in your home
directory ("touch .dir_colors").
> Per the 'ls' manpages (which I don't think is true here.)
> "By default, color is not used to distinguish types of files. That is
> equivalent to using --color=none. Using the --color option without the
> optional WHEN argument is equivalent to using --color=always."
The problem is probably that you are not calling /bin/ls, but the alias,
which specifies when to user color.
Hope this helps,
Lutz
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