On Sun, Jul 01, 2018 at 02:38:42PM +1000, terryc wrote: > On Sat, 30 Jun 2018 19:44:42 -0500 > "Josh W." <joshw8...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, I was working in my Terminal cleaning up my files and folders > > when i needed a second terminal. When i opened it up the Color-Coding > > that was visible in my current terminal, was plain grey and black. I > > restart my computer hoping that it would be a quick fix, but no luck. > > So i tried tuning the setting, and that was a bust as well. I restart > > my Computer and it remains the same, the color coding is gone. I > > remember a while back there was a way to set the color coding, say i > > was running as root and wanted to have the Coding running so i could > > tell directories form executable and such. Could anybody help w/ > > this?? It would be greatly appreciated! > > My 2c guess is that you want something like /usr/bin/dircolors which > sets the various colours used when you invoke ls. > > FWIW, I have various xterm scripts in /usr/local/bin for when I want to > set the basic colours for my xterms. e.g > > #! /bin/sh > exec xterm -fg black -bg LightGrey -fa mono -fs 16 & > > xt-16-lg (END)
With much bash goodness, the need to split ye olde rc file into subfiles became evident, so here is a dump of my "aliii-ls.rc" sub file: # for alphabetical sorting, ignoring case (like windows): Z_COLLATE_u="LC_COLLATE=$LANG" # for traditional unix sorting, lowercase last: Z_COLLATE_C="LC_COLLATE=C" #Z_LS_OPTS0="--time-style=long-iso -bh" Z_LS_OPTS0="--time-style="+%Y%m%d\\\ %H:%M.%S" -bh" # here's the ls option you might be needing/ missing (--color): Z_LS_OPTS1="$Z_LS_OPTS0 --color" alias lsl="$Z_COLLATE_u ls $Z_LS_OPTS0 -l" alias lll="$Z_COLLATE_u ls $Z_LS_OPTS1 -lL" alias l="$Z_COLLATE_u ls $Z_LS_OPTS1 -B" alias ll="$Z_COLLATE_u ls $Z_LS_OPTS1 -Bo" alias lld="$Z_COLLATE_u ls $Z_LS_OPTS1 -Bod" alias la="$Z_COLLATE_u ls $Z_LS_OPTS1 -A" alias lal="$Z_COLLATE_u ls $Z_LS_OPTS1 -Al" alias lald="$Z_COLLATE_u ls $Z_LS_OPTS1 -Ald" #alias dir='LANG=C ls --color=auto --format=vertical' #alias vdir='LANG=C ls --color=auto --format=long' # change dark blue (hard-to-see) dirs to yellow: export LS_COLORS="ow=01;93:di=01;33" Good luck :)