Howto: Add custom color to directory listings.

**A_M_S** · September 22nd, 2009

Excellent thread. Thank you!

**Josh K** · May 3rd, 2010

Hate to bump an old thread, but I can't seem to get the colors to change. In particular the green hi-light is bugging the crap out of me.

**luca.cappelletta** · November 5th, 2010

Originally Posted by Josh K

Hate to bump an old thread, but I can't seem to get the colors to change. In particular the green hi-light is bugging the crap out of me.

look for the 'STICKY_OTHER_WRITABLE' or 'OTHER_WRITABLE' entries

**rre12** · November 15th, 2010

Sorry to bump this thread, but what would the tcsh equivalent script of that bash script be?

**leomeloxp** · April 3rd, 2011

Sorry for bumping it once again, but I doing this customs and I got the same execute permissions problem, but they are with the .mp3 .png and some other extensions... I try to chmod -x the *.mp3 but it doesn't work. Does any one have any clue on how to do it?

Thanks in advance =]

**Tehrasha** · March 6th, 2012

One more bump for the ancient thread..

Default colors, for as long as I can remember, have never worked properly when outputting directory listings to a color xterm.

Generic files are colored grey until a directory or special file-type is highlighted bold, from then on all generic files are bold grey (bright white).

example:::

generic file
generic file
directory
generic file
generic file
special filetype

..I tend to use black backgrounds, so the white text on white background in the above doesnt happen to me.

I see this behavior in aterm, xterm, putty, and every other color term i have used as far back as Ubuntu 6.06

The only reliable fix i have seen is to alias all ls to ls-a so the first file listed it always . in bold.

Surely there must be a better fix for this?