I haven't been able to find out what the different colors of ls mean. I figured out that darkblue is for folders but not the red, yellow, cyan teal etc. Also, I've looked in the man pages, the info pages, searched the forums, got a few books from the library to no avail.

Thanks in advance!

Colors got different meaning.

Here is list (From my OpenBSD and BASH Shell)

Blue - Directory

Green - Executable binary file or script (shell/python etc)
Bright Green : for all following extenstions:
.cmd
.exe
.com
.bat
.btm
.dll

Red :archives or compressed

Cyan : symbolic link

Magenta : image formats

Normal Green : sound formats

Yellow : pipe (FIFO)

Magenta : socket

ah?

How did i got this info?


Simple i use it in day today life from that and from file called /etc/DIR_COLORS .
You can also customized colors in /etc/DIR_COLORS or ~/.dir_colors file