In Ubuntu, ls is aliased to "ls --color=auto" (you can see this for
yourself by doing "type ls") So the colour behaviour is up to how the
ls binary reacts to that option, I suppose. Take a look at "man ls",
but I find it strange that the colours are different in the long
listing.

David

On 4/21/07, david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Can anyone tell me where the color coding for the ls command in Ubuntu
is stored and defined? For example, I've got a directory with black
lettering and a green background, but only for

$ ls -l foo/

not for

$ ls foo/


Most of these codes are obvious, but this one has me baffled and I would
like to know where they are defined. (I suspect it has to do with being
world writeable).

Thanks...

David.

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