ls colours

[pengu34]

Hi guys,

Gonna ask a real stupid question here, but being a newbie I'm allowed

If I open up a terminal and do an ls I get an indication what is in that directory. Now some of text is coloured. What does this mean?

I know blue is a directory but what does green mean?

I ask about green specifically as I unbz2'd a file and it came out as green with an asterix at the end??? So what does the colour mean and why did it have an asterix at then?

Thanks for illumination.

BTW - I hunted around the net but didnt come across anything that told me about this.

[jaboua]

I think the green colour is for the executable files.

[Benny8909]

Correct, executables are green

[Fallen Angel]

Yes, green. Directories are blue and pictures are purple or red.

[Minus]

Executable files: Green
* Normal file : Normal
* Directory: Blue
* Symbolic link : Cyan
* Pipe: Yellow
* Socket: Magenta
* Block device driver: Bold yellow foreground, with black background
* Character device driver: Bold yellow foreground, with black background
* Orphaned syminks : Blinking Bold white with red background
* Missing links ( … and the files they point to) : Blinking Bold white with red background
* Archives or compressed : Red (.tar, .gz, .zip, .rpm)
* Image files : Magenta (.jpg, gif, bmp, png, tif)


Try that

[valan]

All of the colors can be changed with the $LSCOLORS variable. See the ls man page.

[pengu34]

Thanks guys...