SSH File type colors

[rburke]

Hello all,

This is a great forum so I thought I'd post my question here. My system is Red Hat 8.0 on a Pentium 4 with 1 GB RAM. My question is about cahnging the colors for differnet types of files, directories, etc. I have another machine with Red Hat 7.3 and I'm happy with the colors that came with it. But with 8.0 the "blue" that depicts a directory by default is so dark that it almost isn't viewable. You have to stare at it a minute to let your eyes get used to it. Is there anyway to change this? I found the /etc/DIR_COLORS file, but when I changed something it never changed... not even when I restarted. Has anyone had this problem or know how to fix it? Thanks for all your help

Burke

 

[ChrisCW]

You need to change aliases.

If you type alias, you will find that ls is an alias for ls -l --color=tty. You could change this to remove the colours (remove the --color=tty switch) or I believe you can change them (you will have to man ls).

The simple fix is to "unalias ls" from the command prompt...


HTH - ChrisCW

 

[ChrisCW]

Also - I have just tested, if you leave things alone, edit /etc/DIR_COLORS and change the line DIR 01;34 to DIR 04;32, then log out and log in again (no need to reboot) it will look a lot easier to read.

Look up terminal text colour codes on the web!

ChrisCW