Linux Files and Folders distinction

Linux Files and Folders distinction

on the screenshot below, I noticed Folders have different colors, I am not sure what 's the reason:
The blue and light blue are folders.
the ones with .extension are files, they are either green or just plain white on black

I was just wondering if there is any Rules about that .

Thank you

Linux

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jskfan

8/22/2022 - Mon

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noci

2/27/2020

The colors are selectables and are stored in the environment variable: LS_COLORS, colors can be disabled --colors=never or --colors=always default is --colors=auto meaning if stdout is a tty coloring will be done and through pipelines it isnt. ls | cat will remove colors.
Besides coloring ls can also add suffixes to filenames.. (ls -F or classify files).

Folder/
Symbolic-link@
etc.

You can find more in: man ls

jskfan

2/27/2020

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