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In [[SuSE]], the global configuration file for the colour <tt>ls</tt> utility <code>/etc/DIR_COLORS</code>. You can copy this file to <code>.dir_colors</code> in your <code>$HOME</code> directory to override the system defaults.

== Colour codes ==
Below are the colour init strings for the basic file types. A colour init string consists of one or more of the following numeric codes:
* Attribute codes:
00=none 01=bold 04=underscore 05=blink 07=reverse 08=concealed
* Text color codes:
30=black 31=red 32=green 33=yellow 34=blue 35=magenta 36=cyan 37=white
* Background color codes:
40=black 41=red 42=green 43=yellow 44=blue 45=magenta 46=cyan 47=white

=== [[Bash]] shell colour codes ===
This following code echoes a bunch of colour codes to the terminal to demonstrate what's available. Each line is the colour code of one forground colour, out of 17 (default + 16 escapes), followed by a test use of that colour on all nine background colours (default + 8 escapes).

#!/bin/bash
T='gYw' # The test text

echo -e "\n 40m 41m 42m 43m\
44m 45m 46m 47m";

for FGs in ' m' ' 1m' ' 30m' '1;30m' ' 31m' '1;31m' ' 32m' \
'1;32m' ' 33m' '1;33m' ' 34m' '1;34m' ' 35m' '1;35m' \
' 36m' '1;36m' ' 37m' '1;37m';
do FG=${FGs// /}
echo -en " $FGs \033[$FG $T "
for BG in 40m 41m 42m 43m 44m 45m 46m 47m;
do echo -en "$EINS \033[$FG\033[$BG $T \033[0m";
done
echo;
done
echo

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Christoph at 02:08, 9 October 2006