On Wednesday 17 October 2007 16:27:16 Bryen wrote:
Is there a way to disable color coding in the 'ls' command permanently? It's giving me such lovely colors across my gnome-terminal but very unreadable with my sight. :-)
Usually "ls" is an alias to "/bin/ls", but with some additional options. Try "alias ls" what they are on your system. On mine, I get alias ls='ls $LS_OPTIONS' where LS_OPTIONS="-N --color=tty -T 0". This is set in /etc/bash.bashrc. You can temper with this file, but the easiest way to disable colors permanently is to create an empty ".dir_colors" file in your home directory ("touch .dir_colors").
Per the 'ls' manpages (which I don't think is true here.) "By default, color is not used to distinguish types of files. That is equivalent to using --color=none. Using the --color option without the optional WHEN argument is equivalent to using --color=always."
The problem is probably that you are not calling /bin/ls, but the alias, which specifies when to user color. Hope this helps, Lutz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org