Hi

After much googling I'm still trying to figure out what I presume is a fairly easy task - I want to change directories in bash from blue (which can be pretty hard to read) to yellow globally, not on a per-user basis. The sites I've looked at can't even agree whether I should use /etc/dir_color or /etc/DIR_COLOR and give pretty diverse instructions.

As a newbie at the whole server thing I would guess this should be a single file edit somewhere? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I haven't played around with changing the colors of folders and files, but have done so with the prompt.
I've used this site before: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Color_Bash_Prompt when working on my prompt formatting.

For folders, have a look for info on the ~/.dircolors folder and /usr/bin/dircolors executable.
My .bashrc has the color set using "--color=auto" for a few aliases. But I'm guessing there are other options.


Hope this helps a little.
Cheers,
Nap

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Thanks for the reply. In the end I edited /home/<user>/.dircolors and edited the line DIR 01;33 # directory to a new color, then copied the .dircolors file into /etc/skel (and to all existing home directories) so that new users I create have the same change made. Not quite the way I wanted to fix it but the end result is the same so I guess that's a win.

At that point the link you provided was most helpful as it contains the necessary color codes.