xterm shell ls color dark blue, lighten to yellow
When working from the command line in a remote terminal (black background xterm - ssh)
the default directory listing (ls) colors are dark blue, which is hard to read.
here is a hack to make them bright-ish yellow and easy to see. (NOTE this is the color FIFO and SOCK use, so if that is an issue for you, choose a different color)
cp /etc/DIR_COLORS ~/.dir_colors
vi ~/.dir_colors
change this line:
DIR 01;34 # directory
to this:
DIR 01;33 # directory
now log out of your session and log back in again.
viola!
NOTE: if you then work in a text editor such as vim, you may want to set a ligther color scheme as well :colorscheme desert should do it
(NOTE: This hack will change it on a per-user basis, you would have to modify the main /etc/ files for system wide changes. There is also probably a better way to do this,...)
Thanks for that.
No more straining to see for me!
Here's another useful one, where you don't have to edit anything.
$ export LS_COLORS="`echo $LS_COLORS |sed 's/di=[0-9]*;[0-9]*/di=01;93/; s/ow=[0-9]*;[0-9]*/ow=01;93/'`"ref: configuring-ls_colors