If you're working with GNU coreutils (very likely if you're on Linux), you're looking for the dir_colors
utility.
If your distribution has already set everything up so that you get different colors in ls
for some file types, you just need to, for example, copy /etc/DIR_COLORS
to your ~/.dir_colors
, make the changes you want, then start a new shell to see the effects.
If not, still copy the file over to your home directory as above. Then you'll need to:
You can get this on Mac OS X too via coreutils MacPort. A better ls for Mac OS X has some details on this (pay attention to the with_default_names
option, make sure you understand the implications of using it if/before you do).
For FreeBSD (don't know if this applies to other BSD variants), the option for ls
would be -G
, and check out the ls(1) man page description for the CLICOLORS environment variable for a bit more info.