Re: Terminal Color-Coding

[davidson <davidson@freevolt.org>]

On Sun, 1 Jul 2018, davidson wrote:

> On Sat, 30 Jun 2018, Josh W. wrote:
>
> > Hi, I was working in my Terminal cleaning up my files and folders when i
> > needed a second terminal. When i opened it up the Color-Coding that was
> > visible in my current terminal, was plain grey and black. I restart my
> > computer hoping that it would be a quick fix, but no luck. So i tried
> > tuning the setting, and that was a bust as well. I restart my Computer and
> > it remains the same, the color coding is gone. I remember a while back
> > there was a way to set the color coding, say i was running as root and
> > wanted to have the Coding running so i could tell directories form
> > executable and such. Could anybody help w/ this?? It would be greatly
> > appreciated!
> >
> > Joshua <joshw8104@gmail.com>
>
> I am curious whether you "cleaned up" your ~/.bashrc file.
>
> What is the output for this?
>
> $ cat ~/.bashrc

In case you don't have a ~/.bashrc any more (due to overly thorough
cleaning), one of the first symptoms you might notice is the loss of
the pretty dircolors in ls output.

So. If in fact you get this sad result...

 $ cat ~/.bashrc
 cat: .bashrc: No such file or directory

... then it is easy to fix. Just copy a new ~/.bashrc file into your
home directory from /etc/skel, like so:

 $ cp -n /etc/skel/.bashrc ~/

Either way, do keep us informed of your progress, or lack thereof.

Good luck.