Assigning color in shell, with ls command & HP-UX?

juju · 03-26-2011, 02:52 PM

Greetings,

I'm doing some work for a class on a remote server, which is running HP-UX. I'm connecting using the Penguinet SSH client.

The color of the of the text is white against a black background. I'm fine with this for the most part. I would like to be able to assign various colors to directories, executable files, links, etc., etc. This is done automatically on my personal Fedora installation.

It would seem, this particular version of Unix doesn't support dircolors, which would easily allow me to copy the .dir_colors file to my home directory and configure colors that way.

How does one go about doing this in HP-UX? I'm not talking about assigning a color to the prompt, but to the files themselves.

Many thanks,

Juju

corp769 · 03-26-2011, 02:54 PM

The colors are usually done via your shell configuration. What shell are you using in HP-UX?

juju · 03-26-2011, 02:56 PM

I'm using the Penguinet client, which only allows you to change the colors for the foreground and the background.

corp769 · 03-26-2011, 03:00 PM

Ok.... What shell is being used under HP-UX?

Edit - You can either do a "echo $SHELL" or run the following:

Code:

ps -p $$ | tail -1 | awk '{print $NF}'

juju · 03-26-2011, 03:02 PM

corp769 · 03-26-2011, 03:06 PM

Ok, just making sure. You can set LS_COLORS like the following:

Code:

LS_COLORS=rs=0:di=01;34:ln=01;36:mh=00:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:mi=01;05;37;41:su=37;41:sg=30;43:ca=30;41:tw=30;42:ow=34;42:st=37;44:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.lzma=01;31:*.tlz=01;31:*.txz=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.dz=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.lz=01;31:*.xz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.tbz=01;31:*.tbz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.war=01;31:*.ear=01;31:*.sar=01;31:*.rar=01;31:*.ace=01;31:*.zoo=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.7z=01;31:*.rz=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.svg=01;35:*.svgz=01;35:*.mng=01;35:*.pcx=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.mpeg=01;35:*.m2v=01;35:*.mkv=01;35:*.ogm=01;35:*.mp4=01;35:*.m4v=01;35:*.mp4v=01;35:*.vob=01;35:*.qt=01;35:*.nuv=01;35:*.wmv=01;35:*.asf=01;35:*.rm=01;35:*.rmvb=01;35:*.flc=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.flv=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.xcf=01;35:*.xwd=01;35:*.yuv=01;35:*.cgm=01;35:*.emf=01;35:*.axv=01;35:*.anx=01;35:*.ogv=01;35:*.ogx=01;35:*.aac=01;36:*.au=01;36:*.flac=01;36:*.mid=01;36:*.midi=01;36:*.mka=01;36:*.mp3=01;36:*.mpc=01;36:*.ogg=01;36:*.ra=01;36:*.wav=01;36:*.axa=01;36:*.oga=01;36:*.spx=01;36:*.xspf=01;36:

That is my current setup.

You can use export LS_COLORS="" to set it.

juju · 03-26-2011, 03:20 PM

I added this line to .bash_profile and exported it, but the font color is still white. I used the 'set' command and LS_COLORS was listed with the appropriate values.

corp769 · 03-26-2011, 03:58 PM

Is there a way to fully disable the colors of Penguinet client?

juju · 03-26-2011, 04:13 PM

I don't think so. I allows for two colors settings, foreground and background. I don't see any options for removing these settings. I'm fairly sure this is the problem. I've posted to their support site and I'll see what I get.

corp769 · 03-26-2011, 04:51 PM

Yeah, definitely sounds like it.

juju · 03-28-2011, 12:06 PM

Just out of curiosity, what type of ssh client do you use regularly?

corp769 · 03-28-2011, 12:41 PM

I use a standard terminal

szboardstretcher · 03-28-2011, 12:47 PM

Once you set LSCOLORS... you have to use:

Code:

ls --color=auto

easily helped by

Code:

alias ls='ls --color=auto'

If I'm stuck on a windows machine, I will use PuTTY

corp769 · 03-28-2011, 01:27 PM

Ahh, thanks for that. I forgot I have ls aliased....

szboardstretcher · 03-28-2011, 01:54 PM

Yerp, no problem.

Many a horrible day has been had by forgetting 'bout them aliases.