Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Changing file-folder colors and screen output

 

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
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