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Change default colors
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=~/.dircolors
test -r $d && eval "$(dircolors $d)"
Edit ~/.dircolors and change what you want. Remove the '05' in the following two lines to get rid of the flashing colour:
ORPHAN 01;37;41 # orphaned syminks
MISSING 01;37;41 # ... and the files they point to
globbing
The command ls
does not use regexp to match patterns, but glob
.
Thus the command ls [A-Z]*
will not give the expected results (listing files starting with an upper case letter.
The proper command would be: ls [[:upper]]*
See:
$ man 7 glob
- 1. A symlink to a file in an un-mounted external drive will be 'broken' without it constituting an actual error.
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Linux software | No menu in node `(coreutils.info.bz2)coreutils … | active | minor | bug report | 8 years 36 weeks | |
Linux Distribution | How to change the color for a broken symlink fl… | active | normal | support request | 8 years 36 weeks | |
Linux software | /etc/ # grep -r dircolors * | active | normal | feature request | 8 years 36 weeks |