Terminal Help

I have searched the threads on terminal color changing and I am just getting frustrated because nothing is working. I also searched google a bit.

I found this link

http://blog.kung-foo.tv/archives/000335.html

I tried this set of commands

$ mv ~/termcap-vt100-color ~/.termcap
$ mkdir ~/.terminfo
$ setenv TERMINFO "$HOME/.terminfo"
-bash: setenv: command not found
$

What does this mean?

For some reason when I log into Linux systems I have all different colors for folders, media, system files, text files etc. but in terminal it seems there can only be two different colors controlled by "bold text" and "normal text"

I wan to be able to actually tell the difference between files in the terminal window by their colors.

Can this be done?

Did you download the files on that link first?

yes, i did.

If you read the page, it's for tcsh. It seems you are using bash, and it wont work as described.

If you want color, put this in your .bashrc file:


export CLICOLOR='true'
export LSCOLORS="gxfxcxdxbxegedabagacad"


The second command isn't really necessary, I just changed some colors to make it more readable for me.

An alternative is to establish the following alias in your .bash_profile or .bashrc file:

alias ls="ls -FG"

The "G" enables color and the "F" adds slashes for directories, which is a nice touch too.

mac57 said:

An alternative is to establish the following alias in your .bash_profile or .bashrc file:

alias ls="ls -FG"

The "G" enables color and the "F" adds slashes for directories, which is a nice touch too.

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This just added the the slashes... still no color...

yeah, i have been searching, and no luck. i have installed several things that say they work. i must be doing something fundamentally wrong if all these things work. what is everyone's settings on terminal when these flags work?