How to add more colors to ls

[kepler68 0]

Hi! I have been digging through the OS files trying to find where it determines what color a given file is on ls. i want to make .3dx files a unique color (file format from hologram editor) but i have not been able to find where that is handled. Is there an easier way to do this othe rthan digging through the OS? If not, where do i look? 

[payonel 21]

if you set LS_COLORS (an environment variable in the shell) it'll use that as a rule for highlighting ls results

it is a colon separated list of rules.

{TAG}={COLOR}:{TAG}={COLOR}:{TAG}={COLOR} ... etc

TAG can be:

di for directory

fi for file

ln for symbolic link

TAG can also be a glob rule, like *.lua

 

COLOR  is a vt100 color code, "36" for example is the default blue dir color

 

see /etc/profile.lua where it sets the system default for LS_COLORS

you can change your current shell env var using `set` like `set LS_COLORS="....."`

or you can set it via os.setenv, like I do in the /etc/profile.lua

 

[kepler68 0]

8 minutes ago, payonel said:

if you set LS_COLORS (an environment variable in the shell) it'll use that as a rule for highlighting ls results

it is a colon separated list of rules.

{TAG}={COLOR}:{TAG}={COLOR}:{TAG}={COLOR} ... etc

TAG can be:

di for directory

fi for file

ln for symbolic link

TAG can also be a glob rule, like *.lua

 

COLOR  is a vt100 color code, "36" for example is the default blue dir color

 

see /etc/profile.lua where it sets the system default for LS_COLORS

you can change your current shell env var using `set` like `set LS_COLORS="....."`

or you can set it via os.setenv, like I do in the /etc/profile.lua

 

Thanks! Got it working