Change terminal colors (TTY) in bashrc

To change your directory colors, open up your ~/.bashrc file with your editor

nano ~/.bashrc

and make the following entry at the end of the file:

LS_COLORS=$LS_COLORS:'di=0;35:' ; export LS_COLORS

Some nice color choices (in this case 0;35 it is purple) are:

• Blue = 34
• Green = 32
• Light Green = 1;32
• Cyan = 36
• Red = 31
• Purple = 35
• Brown = 33
• Yellow = 1;33
• White = 1;37
• Light Grey = 0;37
• Black = 30
• Dark Grey= 1;30

The first number is the style (1=bold), followed by a semicolon, and then the actual number of the color, possible styles are:

• 0 = default colour
• 1 = bold
• 4 = underlined
• 5 = flashing text
• 7 = reverse field
• 40 = black background
• 41 = red background
• 42 = green background
• 43 = orange background
• 44 = blue background
• 45 = purple background
• 46 = cyan background
• 47 = grey background
• 100 = dark grey background
• 101 = light red background
• 102 = light green background
• 103 = yellow background
• 104 = light blue background
• 105 = light purple background
• 106 = turquoise background

All possible colors:

• 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

These can even be combined, so that a parameter like:

di=1;4;31;42

in your LS_COLORS variable would make directories appear in bold underlined red text with a green background!

You can also change other kinds of files when using the ls command by defining each kind with:

• di = directory
• fi = file
• ln = symbolic link
• pi = fifo file
• so = socket file
• bd = block (buffered) special file
• cd = character (unbuffered) special file
• or = symbolic link pointing to a non-existent file (orphan)
• mi = non-existent file pointed to by a symbolic link (visible when you type ls -l)
• ex = file which is executable (ie. has 'x' set in permissions).

*.rpm = files with the ending .rpm

After changing the bashrc file, you can activate your changes by entering:

source ~\.bashrc