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the color of files....
Hello Experts,
I am in redhat .... I guess 9.x ?! For some reason, the setting makes different kinds of files having different colors. The *.tex file is yellow .... so light that I can barely see it ! How do I change the colors of those files (I mean the file name when we do "ls") ..... I hope I asked the questions in the right category ..... Thanks very much !!!
meow .....
I am in redhat .... I guess 9.x ?! For some reason, the setting makes different kinds of files having different colors. The *.tex file is yellow .... so light that I can barely see it ! How do I change the colors of those files (I mean the file name when we do "ls") ..... I hope I asked the questions in the right category ..... Thanks very much !!!
meow .....
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Hello,
Thanks for the answers .... but I still can not fix it yet. The following is my /etc/DIR_COLORS. However, I didn't see ".tex", so how do I change it ? Also, what does it mean by "01:32" ???? Help ! and Thanks a lot !!!
meow....
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# List any file extensions like '.gz' or '.tar' that you would like ls
# to colorize below. Put the extension, a space, and the color init string.
# (and any comments you want to add after a '#')
.cmd 01;32 # executables (bright green)
.exe 01;32
.com 01;32
.btm 01;32
.bat 01;32
.sh 01;32
.csh 01;32
.tar 01;31 # archives or compressed (bright red)
.tgz 01;31
.arj 01;31
.taz 01;31
.lzh 01;31
.zip 01;31
.z 01;31
.Z 01;31
.gz 01;31
.bz2 01;31
.bz 01;31
.tz 01;31
.rpm 01;31
.cpio 01;31
.jpg 01;35 # image formats
.gif 01;35
.bmp 01;35
.xbm 01;35
.xpm 01;35
.png 01;35
.tif 01;35
Thanks for the answers .... but I still can not fix it yet. The following is my /etc/DIR_COLORS. However, I didn't see ".tex", so how do I change it ? Also, what does it mean by "01:32" ???? Help ! and Thanks a lot !!!
meow....
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# List any file extensions like '.gz' or '.tar' that you would like ls
# to colorize below. Put the extension, a space, and the color init string.
# (and any comments you want to add after a '#')
.cmd 01;32 # executables (bright green)
.exe 01;32
.com 01;32
.btm 01;32
.bat 01;32
.sh 01;32
.csh 01;32
.tar 01;31 # archives or compressed (bright red)
.tgz 01;31
.arj 01;31
.taz 01;31
.lzh 01;31
.zip 01;31
.z 01;31
.Z 01;31
.gz 01;31
.bz2 01;31
.bz 01;31
.tz 01;31
.rpm 01;31
.cpio 01;31
.jpg 01;35 # image formats
.gif 01;35
.bmp 01;35
.xbm 01;35
.xpm 01;35
.png 01;35
.tif 01;35
Try adding a new line for .tex (it currently probably is using some default value)
from http://www.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk/2002-November/000791.html :
/etc/DIR_COLORS
is a configuration file that controls the global color settings for the ls
command.
/etc/DIR_COLORS can be copied into a /home/$HOME/.dir_colors and modified
there to overide /etc/DIR_COLORS for the user of $HOME.
The selection of colors in those two config files seems to be limited to
0 black
1 red
2 green
3 yellow
4 blue
5 magenta
6 cyan
7 white
For each file item designated a foreground and a background color may be set.
Foreground colors are indicated by a leading 3 and background colors by a
leading 4 and ; is the separator. # starts a comment.
Also, a text style may be set:
00 none
01 bold
04 underscore
05 blink
07 reverse (I guess this inverts the fg color with the bg color)
08 concealed
01 underline
Example:
DIR 01;40;36 #directories: bold text, black bg, cyan
I have found the colors green, yellow, cyan, white and (somewhat) magenta
show up better against black than blue or red do against black. Oddly, when I
indicate 43 or 33 (yellow bg or yellow fg) I get white on my PPC system.
Don't know why. Also, I tried 04 to underscore directories but it didn't work.
Changes to DIR_COLORS do not take affect until X11 is restarted or, in the
case of non-X11 terminals, until I re-spawn the tty by killing its process
(kill ####). I do a ps command to find the tty process # to kill. Or reboot,
but rebooting is tedious.
from http://www.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk/2002-November/000791.html :
/etc/DIR_COLORS
is a configuration file that controls the global color settings for the ls
command.
/etc/DIR_COLORS can be copied into a /home/$HOME/.dir_colors and modified
there to overide /etc/DIR_COLORS for the user of $HOME.
The selection of colors in those two config files seems to be limited to
0 black
1 red
2 green
3 yellow
4 blue
5 magenta
6 cyan
7 white
For each file item designated a foreground and a background color may be set.
Foreground colors are indicated by a leading 3 and background colors by a
leading 4 and ; is the separator. # starts a comment.
Also, a text style may be set:
00 none
01 bold
04 underscore
05 blink
07 reverse (I guess this inverts the fg color with the bg color)
08 concealed
01 underline
Example:
DIR 01;40;36 #directories: bold text, black bg, cyan
I have found the colors green, yellow, cyan, white and (somewhat) magenta
show up better against black than blue or red do against black. Oddly, when I
indicate 43 or 33 (yellow bg or yellow fg) I get white on my PPC system.
Don't know why. Also, I tried 04 to underscore directories but it didn't work.
Changes to DIR_COLORS do not take affect until X11 is restarted or, in the
case of non-X11 terminals, until I re-spawn the tty by killing its process
(kill ####). I do a ps command to find the tty process # to kill. Or reboot,
but rebooting is tedious.
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You can edit that file or create a personal .dir_colors file in your home directory