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If you want to change the colours in the coloured output of ls, e.g. to get rid of the flashing red for broken symlinks1, do:
$ dircolors --print-database > ~/.dircolors
Change the following two files:
~/.bashrc
# Change the color for a broken symlink flashing red# http://linux.overshoot.tv/ticket/6154 d=~/.dircolorstest -r $d && eval "$(dircolors $d)"