I love putty and I also hate it. I love it coz it’s cool, one file, simple, great… I hate the default colour of folders, I know I’m getting old – but only freaks can read royal blue on black. Colours that are being passed back to putty rely on the following environment variable – LS_COLORS [sic]. I stole most of this from http://sshadmincontrol.com/change-directory-color-from-blue-to-something-readable-on-putty-a-quick-fix, but added some more explanation.
So, you can change this by sed’ing this env variable and setting a new colour!
Type the command and you get:
export|grep COLO
declare -x LS_COLORS="no=00:fi=00:di=00;34:ln=00;36:pi=40;33:so=00;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:ex=00;32:*.cmd=00;32:*.exe=00;32:*.com=00;32:*.btm=00;32:*.bat=00;32:*.sh=00;32:*.csh=00;32:*.tar=00;31:*.tgz=00;31:*.arj=00;31:*.taz=00;31:*.lzh=00;31:*.zip=00;31:*.z=00;31:*.Z=00;31:*.gz=00;31:*.bz2=00;31:*.bz=00;31:*.tz=00;31:*.rpm=00;31:*.cpio=00;31:*.jpg=00;35:*.gif=00;35:*.bmp=00;35:*.xbm=00;35:*.xpm=00;35:*.png=00;35:*.tif=00;35:"
Enter the following command and you’ll see that the number 34 has changed, as so has the colour!
export LS_COLORS=$(echo $LS_COLORS | sed "s/di=\(..\);../di=\1;93/")
declare -x LS_COLORS="no=00:fi=00:di=00;93:ln=00;36:pi=40;33:so=00;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:ex=00;32:*.cmd=00;32:*.exe=00;32:*.com=00;32:*.btm=00;32:*.bat=00;32:*.sh=00;32:*.csh=00;32:*.tar=00;31:*.tgz=00;31:*.arj=00;31:*.taz=00;31:*.lzh=00;31:*.zip=00;31:*.z=00;31:*.Z=00;31:*.gz=00;31:*.bz2=00;31:*.bz=00;31:*.tz=00;31:*.rpm=00;31:*.cpio=00;31:*.jpg=00;35:*.gif=00;35:*.bmp=00;35:*.xbm=00;35:*.xpm=00;35:*.png=00;35:*.tif=00;35:"
So in your .profile or .bashrc or what ever, you can do the following:
Note that I chose 93 above, but you can choose the colour that you want.
31 Red
32 Green
33 Orange
34 Blue
35 Purple
36 Cyan
37 Grey
90 Dark grey
91 Light red
92 Light green
93 Yellow
94 Light blue
95 Light purple
96 Turquoise
97 White
Now that is totally RAD!
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