A piggy bank of commands, fixes, succinct reviews, some mini articles and technical opinions from a (mostly) Perl developer.

How to change the colours of directories and files

To change the colour of directories from dark blue to light blue (cyan):

    export LS_COLORS=$(echo $LS_COLORS|sed 's/di=01;34/di=01;36/')

See also

    man dircolors

and

    dircolors --print-database



...for a list of the colours.