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5. How to configure colours with ls

If you wish to modify the standard colour set built into ls, you need your personal copy in your home directory, which you get with

 cd ; dircolors -p > .coloursrc 

After modifying this well-commented file you need to have it read into the environment string LS_COLORS, which is usually done with

eval `dircolors .colourrc`
You need to put this line in your .bashrc/.cshrc/.tcshrc (depending on your shell), to have it done at each login. See the dircolors(1) manual page for details.


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