Re: color on LINUX telnet terminal.

From: Creideiki (creideiki_at_cfl.rr.com)
Date: 10/14/03


Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:50:09 GMT

On 14 Oct 2003 12:42:27 GMT, Edwin Johnson <elj@jflight.elj.org> wrote:
> On 14 Oct 2003 03:04:13 -0700, P.Venugopal <gcl@vsnl.com> wrote:
>>I have recently moved from SCO Unix to RedHat Linux 9.On telnet
>>terminals I find the color combinations quite disturbing to work with
>>in vi,ls etc.Is there a way to change or remove this colorful display?
>>I checked in bash profile, bshrc etc but there is no mention of color
>>anywhere.However env shows an entry
>>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;
>>:*.xbm=00;35:*.xpm=00;35:*.png=00;35:*.tif=00;35:
>>
>>>From where does this entry come?
>
> Look to see if you have /etc/DIR_COLORS for this is where many systems store
> the colors.
>
> ...Edwin
>

looks like partial ANSI escape sequences to set colors and other
display attributes for a pretty version of ls using the --color
switch.

you can see the section on ECMA-48 graphics in the man page

man 4 console_codes



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