shell commands 🔼
ls 🔼
ls / color 🔼
ls / color / history of colors in ls 🔼
The directory lister under UNIX is called ls. In the deep and distant past this was a very black and white affair. GNU has changed all that by introducing an environment variable called LS_COLORS which allows you to set the colours of files based on extension, permissions and file type.
ls / color / display NO colours 🔼
$ ls --color=never
ls / color / variable LS_COLORS / about 🔼
LS_COLORS environment variable is responsible for the colors that you see when you run the ls command.
The LS_COLORS environment variable can change the default color settings.
ls / color / variable LS_COLORS / checking current value 🔼
See it's curret value: $ echo $LS_COLORS rs=0:di=01;34:ln=01;36:mh=00:pi=40;33