I enjoy using UNIX/bash commands that support coloured output. Consequently, I have a few aliases defined which automatically enable coloured output of the commands that I know support this option. However, I'm sure there are hundreds of commands out there that support coloured output - I'd like to know what they are.
The ones in my ~...
When you perform ls in a bash shell, sometimes there are colours to indicate different resource types, and you can enable/control this with the --color argument.
But neither the man page nor Google is providing an answer to the question:
What do these colours indicate by default, and how do I display what the current system uses?
UP...
In a terminal in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x, running:
[$] Env
returns (among other things):
"LS_COLORS=no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33 . . ."
Most of the content in LS_COLORS I find in the file:
/etc/DIR_COLORS
BUT the values "no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33 etc.", I have no success finding, even after grepping t...