Color coding

[Reuben D. Budiardja]

On Tuesday 29 June 2004 04:22 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> This is just a curiosity for me, but is there a chart somewhere online
> that says what the colors mean for different  filenames?  I know that
> regular files show up with white foreground and executable files have
> green foreground, but what does the brown background mean?

hmm.. what color show up for different file permission can be set by user in 
.bashrc, so, no there's no definitive chart. For example, I have this to set 
up the color for 'ls' in my .bashrc

LS_COLORS="fi=33;1:di=31;1"
export LS_COLORS

I've actually never bother to figure out what that means. I got it from a 
friend long ago (who got it from another friend) when I started using linux 
<grin>, and just keep using it and copying it with my .bashrc in every 
machine I use. But I've became familiar with the color coding so I (sort of) 
know the permision of each files just by looking at the color. 

RDB

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Reuben D. Budiardja
Department of Physics and Astronomy
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN