Hie all, I want to change the color of Linux directories and executables files. Reading the 'Colours with Linux terminals' HOWTO, I do: dircolors -p > Test In Test, I've got : # Configuration file for dircolors, a utility to help you set the # LS_COLORS environment variable used by GNU ls with the --color option. # The keywords COLOR, OPTIONS, and EIGHTBIT (honored by the # slackware version of dircolors) are recognized but ignored. # Below, there should be one TERM entry for each termtype that is colorizable TERM linux TERM console TERM con132x25 TERM con132x30 TERM con132x43 TERM con132x60 TERM con80x25 TERM con80x28 TERM con80x30 TERM con80x43 TERM con80x50 TERM con80x60 TERM xterm TERM vt100 # Below are the color init strings for the basic file types. A color init # string consists of one or more of the following numeric codes: # Attribute codes: # 00=none 01=bold 04=underscore 05=blink 07=reverse 08=concealed # Text color codes: # 30=black 31=red 32=green 33=yellow 34=blue 35=magenta 36=cyan 37=white # Background color codes: # 40=black 41=red 42=green 43=yellow 44=blue 45=magenta 46=cyan 47=white NORMAL 00 # global default, although everything should be something. FILE 00 # normal file DIR 01;34 # directory LINK 01;36 # symbolic link FIFO 40;33 # pipe SOCK 01;35 # socket BLK 40;33;01 # block device driver CHR 40;33;01 # character device driver ORPHAN 40;31;01 # symlink to nonexistent file # This is for files with execute permission: EXEC 01;32 # List any file extensions like '.gz' or '.tar' that you would like ls # to colorize below. Put the extension, a space, and the color init string. # (and any comments you want to add after a '#') # If you use DOS-style suffixes, you may want to uncomment the following: #.cmd 01;32 # executables (bright green) #.exe 01;32 #.com 01;32 #.btm 01;32 #.bat 01;32 .tar 01;31 # archives or compressed (bright red) .tgz 01;31 .arj 01;31 .taz 01;31 .lzh 01;31 .zip 01;31 .z 01;31 .Z 01;31 .gz 01;31 .deb 01;31 .jpg 01;35 # image formats .gif 01;35 .bmp 01;35 .ppm 01;35 .tga 01;35 .xbm 01;35 .xpm 01;35 .tif 01;35 .mpg 01;37 .avi 01;37 .gl 01;37 .dl 01;37 Ok, so I changed DIR 01;34 # directory to DIR 01;32 # directory and EXEC 01;32 to EXEC 01;33 right ? Then dircolors says : Usage: dircolors [OPTION]... [FILE] If FILE is specified, read it to determine which colors to use for which file types and extensions. Otherwise, a precompiled database is used. omething like eval `dircolors ~/Test` doesn't work too. How to set this bloody LS_COLORS ls variable ? Did I make a mistake ? I want to put this line (when it will work) in my ~/.bashrc to make it run every time I log in. Thanks in advance. Stephane Fromholtz Coordinateur Informatique - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>