Colored output of ls 2

[ddrillich]

Good Day,

When accessing the servers using putty, the output of the ls command appears in different colors on different servers.

Is there a way to display the output without these colors?

Regards,
Dan

 

[sbrews]

Sounds like you are accessing linux servers and that "ls" has been aliased to "ls --color" in the system-wide profile. If you dont want to see the colors, either remove the alias from the system-wide profile or do this either interactively or in your personal profile:

unalias ls



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[ddrillich]

sbrews,

You are right – it's on the Linux servers. Many thanks!

Regards,
Dan

 

[AvayaTier3]

\ls will ignore the alias

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[Annihilannic]

Well... I never knew that! Is it documented or just an obscure trick?

Doesn't seem to work with functions, only aliases...

Annihilannic.

 

[AvayaTier3]

aliases are usually set in your environment when you login.

I found this years ago when I was using xwindows with colored background and foreground where the ls with colors made stuff disappear because the default colors matched my foreground or background colors.

the \ backslash escapes the alias so you don't have to remove, change or unalias them.



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