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I'd like to change the blue color that Cygwin uses for directories. It is too dark to read on most screens.

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echo -ne '\e]4;4;#00BFBF\a' # blue Running that command in the terminal will change the color to cyan, if you are using mintty You can change all of the colors: code.google.com/p/mintty/wiki/Tips#Changing_colours (Will move to answer when rep allows.) – axiomx11 Jul 3 '12 at 19:43
Cygwin's ls doesn't use color 4 (dark blue) for directories, but color 12 (bold blue). Are you remoting to some other system? – ak2 Jul 4 '12 at 12:27

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You probably get the colors from ls itself. You get this from invoking it as ls --color. You can either disable this alias, or you can change the colors. I find the colors useful, so I change the colors.

There are defaults, but you can override these by use of the LS_COLORS environment variable. You can set this manually, or you can use the tool dircolors to help you.

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For the curious: This not only works in Cygwin, but also on the Linux shell. So it might be useful for xterm users, too ;) – Izzy Jul 3 '12 at 22:17
Yes, I found the colors were coming from my remote CentOS server. I put a copy of /etc/DIR_COLORS in my home directory, and changed DIR 01;34 # directory. – axiomx11 Jul 5 '12 at 13:52
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If you're using MinTTY (which you almost certainly are, unless you know you're doing something special), the easiest method is to change your MinTTY settings. You can do this by editing your ~/.minttyrc file.

Try running the below, then restarting MinTTY:

echo 'Blue=127,127,255' >> ~/.minttyrc
echo 'BoldBlue=191,191,255' >> ~/.minttyrc

This will work for everywhere that blue colour turns up, not just in the results from ls.

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I had blue comments in vim as well, which this fix remedies. – Alexander Torstling Apr 12 at 8:23

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