LS_COLORS

Linda haniganwork at earthlink.net
Thu Jan 29 19:46:04 UTC 2015


On 01/29/2015 12:03 PM, C de-Avillez wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 17:50:25 +0100
> Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
>> hi,
>> Am Donnerstag, den 29.01.2015, 10:26 -0600 schrieb Linda:
>>> Does anyone know where the default values for LS_COLORS are
>>> set. When I do a search it talks about them being set in
>>> /etc/DIR_COLORS I don't have a file by that name. I tried to
>>> do some greps on /etc/* and /etc/*/* for LS_COLORS and
>>> jpeg=  in hopes it would show me where it was but no luck.
>> have a look at ~/.bashrc and i'd recommend to read the two articles
>> below, they explain it pretty well ...
>>
>> http://blog.twistedcode.org/2008/03/colored-ls-output.html
>> http://blog.twistedcode.org/2008/04/lscolors-explained.html
>>
>> ciao
>> 	oli
>>
>>
> Additionally -- LS_COLORS can usually be set by the 'dircolors'
> coreutils command. (man|info) dircolors for details.
>
> Cheers,
>
> ..C..
>
>
>
Thanks I had found some of these but didn't know about the 
man page. I am still not finding a place where the global 
defaults are set maybe they are written into the code.  I 
guess I'll have to settle for making the changes in .bashrc 
for each user.
                     Linda
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