why files change their colors when we .... ?

[imand]

Hi
why files change their colors when we change their permissions?
the permission of my test file was:
$ll
-rw-r--r-- 1 iman iman 9 Jul 27 14:54 test
and it's color was black. but when i changed it to -rwxr--r-- it becamed green(I mean the color of the file when we use ll command to show it in console). I know that this is beacuse of X (excute)permission .but why? what do colors mean in console?
Is there any man page that explane about the colors of the files ... ?
thanks for your attention

[stathisx]

i think when the file color is red access is denied,green means it is executable and black that is not ....

[dan@george]

In Debian at least, the default colors for ls are:

blue = directory
black = regular, non-executable file
green = executable file (executable bit is set for your user)
red = archive
pink = image or movie or something (not sure what the rules on this one are)
light blue = symbolic link
red with black background = broken symbolic link

Hope this helps.

[hafnium]

mess around with the $PS1 variable to change color setting, and how your terminal looks. ibm offers tons of awesome tutorials.

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerwork...mpt/index.html

[imand]

so thanks for your attentin hafnium,dan@george and stathisx
by the way stathisx: your link was really killer

[sarumont]

cat /etc/DIR_COLORS

This file will tell you what color is for what file ext., etc.

[imand]

I tested **cat /etc/DIR_COLORS** but there was not such dir . maybe beacuse my distro is knoppix. isn't it?

[sarumont]

Maybe...I thought that was the default for all distros...try ~/.dir_colors