Terminal.app text colors

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Terminal.app text colors

How do I find out what the text colors mean in terminal.app? If a filename is red what does that mean? What about blue? aqua?

I know this is probably basic stuff, but I have to start somewhere and I don't know where else to look for the answers.

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Mac OS X (10.3.9) Terminal.app SSH to Linux server

Posted on Jun 9, 2006 8:30 AM

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Answer 1

Jun 9, 2006 10:05 AM in response to Gregg Luhring

Blue is a directory
Green is an application or executable
aqua is a symbolic link
black is a regular filename

I don't know what red is. Or the flashing red

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Answer 2

MacLemon

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Jun 11, 2006 12:36 PM in response to Gregg Luhring

Do an ls -l to see how the colors correspond to privs. One cannot globally say which is which as it depends on your environment settings and ls version.
MacLemon

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Answer 3

Jun 21, 2006 1:52 PM in response to Gregg Luhring

Wait, I thought we answered this?

Check out your post here.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=2503348#2503348

The default is exfxcxdxbxegedabagacad.
Blue = Directory
Magenta = Link
Green = Socket
Brown = Pipe
Red = Executable
Blue w/ Cyan background = Block Special
Blue w/ Brown bg = Character Special
Balck w/ Red bg = Executable with setuid bit set
Black w/ Cyan bg = Executable with setgid bit set
Black w/ Green bg = Directory writable to others, with sticky bit
Black w/ Brown bg = Directory writable to others, without sticky bit

Also, the ls man page explains some of this as well

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