Colorize your files in the terminal.

matt.a.feenstra@gmail.com

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Information

This has been tested and works on MacOS, RHEL/Fedora/Debian/Ubuntu/Alpine Linux, and all other flavors suporting xterm with 256 colors. The LS_COLORS environment variable is widely interpreted by most *NIX operating systems and is how directory color is passed to the user's command line terminal. See the following UNIX man pages man dircolors and man dir_colors for more information.

Also:

• Use gls from GNU coreutils. And a couple handy aliases to consider:

  • gls -alhF --group-directories-first --color=auto

  • gls -alhtrF --group-directories-first --color=auto

• gdircolors

• gdircolors --print-database

• gdircolors --print-ls-colors

How to use it

Source the ls_colors.sh into your environment in the following ways:

• For your user, put in your shell profile.

In this example, for MacOS or Linux, where you use bash shell as your terminal:

bash shell:

echo 'source $HOME/ls_colors/ls_colors.sh' >> $HOME/.bashrc

And then reload (ie: source ~/.bashrc) or re-login.

• For system-wide on RHEL Linux

Place the ls_colors.sh in your /etc/profile.d folder:

sudo cp $HOME/ls_colors/ls_colors.sh /etc/profile.d

Modifications

In the interest of customization, I've included ls_colors_print.rb. This snippet will print out each of the colors per file type, and should make it easy to test and play around. Feel free to branch/fork and contribute to the project. Thank you!

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matt.a.feenstra@gmail.com