How to turn off color listing in regular Linux terminal ..

purpleburple · 10-28-2002, 03:00 AM

Hi. This is not really a problem but I am just curious as to why at just the plain old linux terminal (without X started) ... 'ls' lists files in color? While back in X at an xterm I have to type 'ls --color' as I have not yet set any alias'.

Not that I would want to .. But is there a way to turn off the color ls listing in
terminal outside of X?

Also wondering why it lists in color by default although I have not set any alias' yet?

thanks

Mik · 10-28-2002, 03:16 AM

The default behaviour is to not use any colours. So there must have been an alias set somewhere. Try just typing the command alias to see which aliases have been set. You should be able to run 'unalias ls' to get rid of colours.

purpleburple · 10-28-2002, 03:26 AM

thanks Mik!! I typed 'alias; and I typed 'echo $LS_OPTIONS' and there was something like ls color=auto or similiar.

thanks again