Hi,

When I "ssh" into our Linux boxes using freeware putty,
when listing out files, some files are painted in red text,
some in blue text & white.

What does the color code mean & how can I change
them or disable them. Blue is highly unreadable.

The very same putty ssh into Solaris & HP-UX boxes
doesn't give rise to these colors.


Thanks
U
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sunhux G wrote:

Hi,

When I "ssh" into our Linux boxes using freeware putty,
when listing out files, some files are painted in red text,
some in blue text & white.

What does the color code mean & how can I change
them or disable them. Blue is highly unreadable.

The very same putty ssh into Solaris & HP-UX boxes
doesn't give rise to these colors.


Thanks
U


Hi,

Did a quick google and found this:

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)

Hope this helps,

Phil

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check out /etc/profile.d/colors.sh and /etc/profile.d/colors.csh

Aaron

sunhux G wrote:

Hi,

When I "ssh" into our Linux boxes using freeware putty,
when listing out files, some files are painted in red text,
some in blue text & white.

What does the color code mean & how can I change
them or disable them. Blue is highly unreadable.

The very same putty ssh into Solaris & HP-UX boxes
doesn't give rise to these colors.


Thanks
U



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Aaron Bliss wrote:
> check out /etc/profile.d/colors.sh and /etc/profile.d/colors.csh

Yeah, you beat me to it. This will change it for everyone. Or you can have your
own locally.

I *loathe* blue on black (oh, isn't *everyone* using a white background?!)

mark
>
> Aaron
>
> sunhux G wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> When I "ssh" into our Linux boxes using freeware putty,
>> when listing out files, some files are painted in red text,
>> some in blue text & white.
>>
>> What does the color code mean & how can I change
>> them or disable them. Blue is highly unreadable.
>>
>> The very same putty ssh into Solaris & HP-UX boxes
>> doesn't give rise to these colors.
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> U
>>
>

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If you run `alias`, you'll see that ls is aliased to "ls --color=tty". I believe that if you remove this alias you will get no coloring at all, just like Solaris and HP-UX.


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Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 10:20 PM
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Subject: Re: what does putty's different text colors of files/folders mean & how to disable

Aaron Bliss wrote:
> check out /etc/profile.d/colors.sh and /etc/profile.d/colors.csh

Yeah, you beat me to it. This will change it for everyone. Or you can have your
own locally.

I *loathe* blue on black (oh, isn't *everyone* using a white background?!)

mark
>
> Aaron
>
> sunhux G wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> When I "ssh" into our Linux boxes using freeware putty,
>> when listing out files, some files are painted in red text,
>> some in blue text & white.
>>
>> What does the color code mean & how can I change
>> them or disable them. Blue is highly unreadable.
>>
>> The very same putty ssh into Solaris & HP-UX boxes
>> doesn't give rise to these colors.
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> U
>>
>

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