If you spend much time on the Linux command line (and you probably wouldn’t be reading this if you didn’t), you’ve undoubtedly noticed that the ls command displays your files in a number of different ...

It’s been a lot of years since colors were first introduced on the command line of Unix/Linux systems. But, yes, there was a time when terminal windows were simply black and white. Today, file names ...

Most Linux distributions come with the ls utility configured to display directories and files in color. This is allowed because most terminals support ANSI escape sequences which, among other things, ...