Listings Question About Ping

[Joe Zeff]

On 12/22/2011 05:22 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
> I remember seeing certain files or directories colorized to some color
> over black which, in my opinion, is visually difficult to read and I've
> been following the thread with the hopes of seeign a solution. I don't
> mind, and actually like, colored text on a white background for dirs,
> links, excutables, whatever. Its just that one bad combination that I
> want to get rid of.

I remember, once, chasing this down from /etc/bashrc to some other file 
and, IIRC, a third file that contains the definitions.  I was very 
unhappy to learn that all of the definitions were numeric and there was 
no key included to help you figure out what's what.  (I know that 
there's a listing somewhere of the names of all the standard colors, and 
I'd have been happy if that file had used them, because that's what I'd 
been looking for.)  It was several years ago, and I don't remember just 
where it was, but you should be able to find it with a little patience 
and persistence.  Once there, you can change the settings to whatever 
you want, but be sure and keep a record because sooner or later it'll be 
over-written and you'll have to do it again.  That's why I came up with 
that alias in the first place, so I wouldn't have to remember what file 
to edit every time it changed.