Colourful ls

14Dec07

Some systems display the ls command’s output in black and white. On Fedora, it’s in colour, thanks to the settings of a file called /etc/DIR_COLORS (individual users can set their own colours with a .dir_colors file in their home directory). By default (on Fedora at least) ls is set up with the following colours (among others): a directory is blue; a symbolic link is cyan; a named pipe is yellow; an executable file is bright green; an archive is red; and an image is magenta.

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