{"id":765,"date":"2013-05-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fir3netwp.gmsrrpobkbd.com\/2013\/05\/01\/directory-listings-within-the-shell-is-unreadable\/"},"modified":"2021-07-24T18:04:15","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T18:04:15","slug":"directory-listings-within-the-shell-is-unreadable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fir3net.com\/UNIX\/Linux\/directory-listings-within-the-shell-is-unreadable.html","title":{"rendered":"How to Fix Unreadable Directory Listings within Shell"},"content":{"rendered":"
You may find that when listing directories within the shell and when using a black background that the directory names aren’t clearly readable.<\/p>\n
To resolve this issue the following command and then log back in. This command will issue a find and replace against the color setting (for directory listings) within the necessary configuration file.<\/p>\n
sed -i 's\/DIR 00;34\/DIR 00;31\/g' \/etc\/DIR_COLORS.xterm<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You may find that when listing directories within the shell and when using a black background that the directory names aren’t clearly readable. To resolve this issue the following command and then log back in. This command will issue a find and replace against the color setting (for directory listings) within the necessary configuration file. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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