On 16 October 2010 13:35, Marco Atzeri <marco_atz...@yahoo.it> wrote: > --- Sab 16/10/10, Thayer Williams ha scritto: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm having trouble getting any of cygwin terminals to >> render LS_COLORS >> values for filetypes. Directories, links and executables >> are rendered >> in color, but individual files (zip archives, movies, etc.) >> are >> displayed all in one color. Found some years-old solutions >> on google, >> but none have worked. > > on my PC after > eval "`dircolors -b /etc/DIR_COLORS`" > > all the zips come red > > Regards > Marco
Thanks, it's good to know it works for someone; that convinced me it was something wrong on my end and it was. For some reason, every single file under 'My Documents' has 700 for perms and thus executable. Dropping the x bit shows the colors as expected. Now to figure out why they're all executable... Thanks again, Cheers -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple