https://www.howtogeek.com/307899/how-to-change-the-colors-of-directories-and-files-in-the-ls-command/
Describes printing, changing values, saving the original file. I have an
original file if you need it.
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On 6/26/2018 3:38 PM, Stan Gorodenski stanlep@commspeed.net
[LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
> Thanks Joan, Bruce, Scott, and Ken. ls --color and ls -a --color works,
> but I have to enter --color all the time. I guess some kind of change I
> did not want occurred in a file. I will probably have to find it and set
> it back to what it was using nano.
>
> I assume pipe works in other commands, such as cl, besides ls. I had run
> a cl command and it came up with more than a page full of messages and I
> wanted to see the beginning.
> Stan
>
> On 6/26/2018 11:08 AM, Scott scottro@nyc.rr.com [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Scott Robbins
>> PGP keyID EB3467D6
>> ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 )
>> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6
>>
>>
>
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