[arch-general] Colorized Output Listing

[C Anthony Risinger]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Carlos Mennens <carloswill at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's very frustrating in Arch that my directories[blue], text
> files[white], tarballs[red], symbolic links[blue], and scripts[green]
> are all the same color. How can I colorize this in bash so my Arch
> Linux system is much easier to sort through?
>
> I checked the Wiki and only found something about colorizing my PS1
> which is not what I really care about.
>
> Thanks for any help...

grab the DIRCOLORS bits from gentoo, they are the best.  stick it in
/etc/bash.bashrc.local.

or use this guys premade package in AUR (looks old, but prob works fine)

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18418

C Anthony