How to change the color of particular file?

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I want to change the color of particular file type:

for .c files red
for .out files green
for .sh files orange

Like this, how to make these colors as default color for the corresponding file type?

Cool. :) Please post that as an answer and mark this question solved. — saji89, Dec 29 '12 at 11:59

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 29 '12 at 12:19

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I needed the color difference whenever try ls -l or ls commmand.

So I just used $LS_COLOR variable and modified it like this.

LS_COLORS='*.c=01;32:*.out=31:*.sh=01;35:'

for more this source about bash

answered Dec 29 '12 at 12:19

Omkant

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:37

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Use the dircolors command. For example if you want to have the Solarised theme, download the required dircolors database file from this link To use it just do the following:

eval `dircolors /path/to/dircolorsdb`

For more instructions refer the readme of the previous link.

Some other useful links:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/19219/how-to-colorize-output-of-ls

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:37

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answered Dec 06 '12 at 13:14

saji89

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

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By writing condition for gtk~.css or some action for Nautilus.
Or maybe just using custom iconset?

Need to say, such terminal command like ls is using folders and files coloring, and perhaps this feature have the base to be extended.

Look this answer: Can we have Mac like 'labels' on GNOME?

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

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answered Dec 03 '12 at 06:36

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I wanted only a way how to do it please steps or if already there is an answer plz provide some link, I am not able to find it – Omkant Dec 03 '12 at 06:37
Can we have Mac like 'labels' on GNOME? – swift Dec 03 '12 at 07:01

How to change the color of particular file?

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