Strange Colors in CLI?

carlosinfl · 03-22-2007, 07:22 AM

I noticed that when I changed some permissions around the other day, my colors are now very strange when I am using Konsole via CLI. Rather than all my files in a directory being a simple "white", they appear with an "orange" highlight over them which is driving me crazy. I really don't know what I did to cause this but I assume it had to do with the chmod via the directory the files are in.

Can someone please explain why I am seeing this and also if there is a simple solution to change this back to default?

Konsole Example

GrapefruiTgirl · 03-22-2007, 08:21 AM

I think the file /etc/DIRCOLORS or /etc/DIR.COLORS sets the colors which appear in the CLI. Perhaps you CHMOD'd that file to something unreadable by users, so weird colors are resulting?

trashbird1240 · 03-22-2007, 09:53 AM

It's happening because the shell you use (bash or zsh) has color-coded output for particular permissions.

Here's everything pertaining to colors in my .zshrc:

Code:

alias ls="ls --color=yes"
alias lsmost='ls -ot --color=no|most'
export LS_COLORS="ex=31:*.o=43:*.do=20"

"alias ls ..." means that I always want colors to show. This is probably the offending line in your configuration file. Find it; it may be in etc/bashrc or etc/bash_profile. There will be a .bashrc (or for whatever shell you use) in your home directory and you can look at it to either find the code or where it resides.

That last line actually controls what colors I see: executables are red, object files are yellow and Stata do-files are 20 (which I think is green...)

Joel