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How do I change of color current directory, input text, and such in ~/.bashrc ? Thanks.

this link should just about cover it.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-t...pt-40033.shtml

How do I change the colors of output text? So directorys are blue, executables are green, and such?

This is my current .bashrc file:

Code:

# Defines colors

Black="$(tput setaf 0)"

BlackBG="$(tput setab 0)"

DarkGrey="$(tput bold ; tput setaf 0)"

LightGrey="$(tput setaf 7)"

LightGreyBG="$(tput setab 7)"

White="$(tput bold ; tput setaf 7)"

Red="$(tput setaf 1)"

RedBG="$(tput setab 1)"

LightRed="$(tput bold ; tput setaf 1)"

Green="$(tput setaf 2)"

GreenBG="$(tput setab 2)"

LightGreen="$(tput bold ; tput setaf 2)"

Brown="$(tput setaf 3)"

BrownBG="$(tput setab 3)"

Yellow="$(tput bold ; tput setaf 3)"

Blue="$(tput setaf 4)"

BlueBG="$(tput setab 4)"

LightBlue="$(tput bold ; tput setaf 4)"

Purple="$(tput setaf 5)"

PurpleBG="$(tput setab 5)"

Pink="$(tput bold ; tput setaf 5)"

Cyan="$(tput setaf 6)"

CyanBG="$(tput setab 6)"

LightCyan="$(tput bold ; tput setaf 6)"

NC="$(tput sgr0)" # No Color



# Displays [time][host>dir]$ 

PS1='\[$White\][\[$Red\]\T\[$White\]][\[$Purple\]\h\[$White\]>\w]\$\[$Green\] '

I think it's a bit overdone, but it looks nice.

edit:
And I want to create a command that will display distro, kernel and such. An alias would work.
Alot like this:
http://news.softpedia.com/images/rev...img2-large.png

Quote:

Originally Posted by User Name.

How do I change the colors of output text? So directorys are blue, executables are green, and such?

Set the LS_COLORS environment variable, see man dircolors for info.

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Originally Posted by Nylex

Set the LS_COLORS environment variable, see man dircolors for info.

I don't exactly under stand what you mean. I checked the man, it didn't give much information. The --help file gave the same as man. Can you explain this better?

to handle the LS_COLORS, it is easier to add to the end of your bashrc the line
alias ls="ls --color=auto"

Thanks, but is there anyway that I could make it so a special file is a cetain color though? Like pictures? Or text files?

Ah, now I understand the question. Unfortunately I don't know the answer. Sorry.

The command 'ls' uses the environment variable $LS_COLORS to determine display of colors.

on my system, it looks like this:

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Code:

>echo $LS_COLORS

no=00:fi=00:di=00;34:ln=00;36:pi=40;33:so=00;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:ex=00;32:*.cmd=00;32:*.exe=00;32:*.com=00;32:*.btm=00;32:*.bat=00;32:*.sh=00;32:*.csh=00;32:*.tar=00;31:*.tgz=00;31:*.arj=00;31:*.taz=00;31:*.lzh=00;31:*.zip=00;31:*.z=00;31:*.Z=00;31:*.gz=00;31:*.bz2=00;31:*.bz=00;31:*.tz=00;31:*.rpm=00;31:*.cpio=00;31:*.jpg=00;35:*.gif=00;35:*.bmp=00;35:*.xbm=00;35:*.xpm=00;35:*.png=00;35:*.tif=00;35:

LS_COLORS is set by the program dircolors.

The default colors used by dircolors are compiled in, and can be viewed by using the command

dircolors --print-database

The output from this command can be re-directed to a file, the output can be modified and used as the control file for dircolors.

Here's the step by step:

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Code:

dircolors --print-database > $HOME/.dircolors



vim $HOME/.dircolors



# edit $HOME/.dircolors, change colors however you want.

Then edit $HOME/.bashrc, put the following commands in:

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Code:

LS_COLORS = 'dircolors -b $HOME/.dircolors'

alias ls='ls -hF --color=tty'

now... I haven't actually done any of this, you may have to jigger a command or two, but I believe that I'm at least 95% of the way there.

By the way, the documentation for dircolors can be found by using 'info dircolors'.