Changing terminal colors

Athos · 06-18-2003, 05:01 PM

While using Slackware I got used to having the terminal display different file types in different colors(directories in blue and binaries in green for example). Now that I've switched over to Debian I find that having everything in gray/white all of the time is not only hard on the eyes but almost hypnotic in a stupifying sort of manner.

How do I set up the terminal to display different file types as different colors?

contrasutra · 06-18-2003, 05:50 PM

Well, what I did was set up an alias for "ls" as "ls --color" in my .bashrc file.

Theres a better way, but I forget it, and that seems to work.

alias ls="ls --color" in ~/.bashrc

Athos · 06-19-2003, 08:47 PM

Thanks. That does what I wanted it to do. Much appreciated. )

tommytomthms5 · 09-11-2007, 05:54 PM

cool!!! ill try that