This is not a really huge question I am just annoyed by the dark blue directory color in my bash shell and want to change it. I use a black background so it is dificult to read the blue. Is this possible? and if it is how do I do it?

Thanks in advance.

Use the LS_COLORS environment variable
man dircolors

sorry you lost me a little in that, still fairly new to linux and not really sure what you mean. could you explain a little more?

I looked in my linux in a nutshell book and found the command dircolors, but what do i put in the file it talks about? and if i make a file called newDirColors do i just run the command like so:

%dircolors newDirColors

OK, bash doesn't paint your directories in colors. It's the ls command that paints them.
The ls command uses some terminal codes to tell it to display the directory in blue.
The terminal codes are taken from the LS_COLORS environment variable.
try echo $LS_COLORS and you will see what I mean.
in LS_COLORS, there is a 'di=something', di is for directories and something is the code for your terminal to print in blue. The TERM environment variable tells you which terminal you are using.
Here are the codes for the xterm compatible terminals:
http://www.frexx.de/xterm-256-notes/

I found this page on the subject. Any good?

http://linux-sxs.org/housekeeping/lscolors.html

Thank you,

I also found
http://linux-sxs.org/housekeeping/lscolors.html

at this link there is a good explanation on how to do it in your .bashrc file.

Thanks again guys for some reason I just could not figure this one out.

U can edit /ets/DIR_COLOURS accordingly