[SOLVED] Color coding within directories...

TomOmega · 05-13-2011, 12:48 PM

Yes it's me again, about to ask a foolish question.

I've ran man on this commands, but they don't make any reference to their color, nor is it mentioned in the Bible.

As I go through such as /sbin what does the color of the commands mean, like arch is green, awk is blue, and then there is those that have a red background such as cgexec?

Then I go into /etc and then there's yum.repos.d there is no man for it, so I typed it in and got "command not found", so then I went in SU mode and "vi yum.repos.d and I get "yum.repos.d" is a directory, OK so I
[root@Linux etc]# cd /yum.repos.d
bash: cd: /yum.repos.d: No such file or directory. So just what is yum.repos.d, I thought this is where I add more repositories.

I just want to THANK YOU in advance for any help you can give me. I'm following the Bible step by step, I'm starting to feel like a bother, but I've got to get this down.

Snark1994 · 05-13-2011, 01:57 PM

That's to do with your shell. There's some bash info here (a bit further down the page). I think normally green is an executable, blue is a symlink and red is a broken symlink

With regards to your changing directory, you typed

Code:

cd /yum.repos.d

You should have typed:

Code:

cd /etc/yum.repos.d

or

Code:

cd ./yum.repos.d

or even

Code:

cd yum.repos.d

(there's no directory 'yum.repos.d' under '/')

Hope this helps,

szboardstretcher · 05-13-2011, 02:10 PM

type 'file' then the name of what you want info about.

e.g

Code:

file /tmp
file /root
file /sbin/weak-modules
file /etc/my.cnf

etc... etc...

also, for more info:

Code:

stat /etc
lsattr /etc

TomOmega · 05-13-2011, 07:53 PM

Snark1994 & szboardstretcher I want to THANK YOU for taking the time out of your day to help me.