I am at the moment using Ubuntu 10.10 with the default color scheme. If I open a bash terminal and type ls -l / I get the results with most information in white on the standard purple background, most directory names in blue on the normal background, tmp in blue on a green background, a file name in white on the normal background and links in teal on the normal background.

So in this situation I am wanting to figure out what the green background behind tmp signifies. I have searched for information about bash color codes and I find hundreds of links regarding how the CHANGE the colors. I have yet to find one which explains what the colors mean.

Can anyone help?

TIA,

Ken

Found something here:
http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_boo..._about_ls.html

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Here is another one you can look at:

http://www.bigsoft.co.uk/blog/index....ring-ls_colors

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Thanks folks for the prompt replies. is what I needed. I had read several articles on changing the colors and could not find .dircolors in my home directory (as I had not done any customizing). It seems that the green background on the directories in question signified OTHER_WRITABLE. I suspected that based on empirical evidence. I have printed out the results of the dircolors command and with the aid of some different color highlighters, a pen and some circles and arrows I can always translate my ls colors.

THANKS AGAIN!

Ken