I noticed that when I login to my new Arch server & attempt to use commands like 'ls' or 'ls -l', I have no color. It's just white text so it's hard to visually differentiate the difference between files and directories. I did read the Wiki below which advises me to modify my ~/.bashrc which comes from /etc/skel/.bashrc however when I am logged in as root, I want to have this colored output feature. I checked and my /root directory has no .bashrc file. When I attempt to create one & add the parameters I have in my ~/.bashrc, I then log out and log back in as root but still have no color. How do I make this system wide? When I modify my regular user's .bashrc file, I do get my desired color output but I can't figure out how to achieve this for 'root'. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Color_Bash_Prompt