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Colorful File Names in Konsole

Hi,

I want the file names to be colorful in the Konsole terminal window. Such as while txt files are brown, documents are blue, header files are another colour...etc.

When I type "ls" in the home (~) directory it's just as I want (which I am used to), but when I enter into a directory and type "ls" everything is Black&White.

How can I change it to be the same in other directories?

PS. Which one is correct, "Color" or "Colour"? As far as I remember they are both ok. While Americans say Color, English say Colour. Or vice versa? I cant remember which one is which?

I'm not quite sure I follow...

Are you saying that the only directory you get
directory colourisation in is ~, but other directories
on your machine present themselves as b&w?

Or do you mean that you're sshing/telneting into
another machine, and it's all b&w?

Cheers,
Tink

P.S.: You got the spelling things right, Americans
just can't spell proper. :}

Quote:

Originally posted by Tinkster

Are you saying that the only directory you get
directory colourisation in is ~, but other directories
on your machine present themselves as b&w?

Yes I get colourisation only in "~"
For example if I jump into Desktop folder and type "ls" all file and folder names are B&W.

At school in labs we use RedHat and they show in the way I told. And I got used to them :)

By the way, I use SuSE 9.3..

Here is the inside of /bash.bashrc

Code:

#

# Colored file listings

#

if test -x /usr/bin/dircolors ; then

    #

    # set up the color-ls environment variables:

    #

    if test -f $HOME/.dir_colors ; then

        eval "`dircolors -b $HOME/.dir_colors`"

    elif test -f /etc/DIR_COLORS ; then

        eval "`dircolors -b /etc/DIR_COLORS`"

    fi

fi



#

# ksh/ash soemtimes do not know

#

test -z "$UID"  &&  UID=`id -ur 2> /dev/null`

test -z "$EUID" && EUID=`id -u  2> /dev/null`

test -z "$USER" && USER=`id -un 2> /dev/null`

test -z "$MAIL" && MAIL=/var/spool/mail/$USER

test -z "$LOGNAME"  && LOGNAME=$USER



#

# ls color option depends on the terminal

# If LS_COLROS is set but empty, the terminal has no colors.

#

if test "${LS_COLORS+empty}" = "${LS_COLORS:+empty}" ; then

    LS_OPTIONS=--color=tty

else

    LS_OPTIONS=--color=none

fi

if test "$UID" = 0 ; then

    LS_OPTIONS="-a -N $LS_OPTIONS -T 0"

else

    LS_OPTIONS="-N $LS_OPTIONS -T 0"

fi

What should I change here?

Also in the comments section of the code it says "Do not edit this code. Instead edit /etc/bash.bashrc.local"

But I couldn't find the file where it supposed to be.

it's kind of hard to comment on that script without the whole thing and it's profile brothers and sisters

i can't really argue with the script even though i think that stuff should be in profile and not bashrc but whatever

the behaviour you describe is very weird

i think first try this in your ~/.bashrc

alias ls='ls --color=auto'

if that doesn't work try putting the same command in ~/.bash_profile as well

if that doesn't work try adding this to ~/.bash_profile in adidion to the other things
(check out the file first /etc/dircolors and make sure that's what it is called)
the global script is using a variable i think "DIR_COLORS" ?

Code:

if [ -f "/etc/dircolors" ] ; then

        eval $(dircolors -b /etc/dircolors)

fi