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> From: "Stan Gorodenski stanlep@commspeed.net [LINUX_Newbies]" <LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com>
> To: LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2018 9:56 AM
> Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] Changing file-folder colors and screen output
>
> I am running the terminal version of Ubuntu. I think this is what it is
> called. I enter line commands rather than having a gui interface.
>
> Yesterday when I entered 'ls -a' the files and folder names were
> colored, i.g., files were a deep blue. It has always been this way. This
> morning the print color of files and folders are all white. This makes
> it hard to distinguish files from folders. What happened? On the
> internet the suggestions were to go into a file and modify some
> settings. This seems to be an extreme measure, unless somehow the
> dircolors got corrupted. How can I get back to what I had?
You can try ls --color. Perhaps a default preference got changed in an
update or the like?
>
> As another issue, I think I read somewhere how to control the screen
> display of, say, error messages so that it does not scroll all the way
> to the bottom. When it scrolls all the way to the bottom I cannot see
> the very first top lines if the output is larger than the screen size.
> What do I do to control scrolling?
> Stan
The scroll lock key? You can pipe a command that you expect to give a lot
of text to more or less, e.g ls home|more
This will stop at the bottom of the screen and to continue, you hit the
space bar.
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Scott Robbins
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