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Re: Terminal Color-Coding

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On Sun, 1 Jul 2018, davidson wrote:

> On Sun, 1 Jul 2018, davidson wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 30 Jun 2018, Josh W. wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi, I was working in my Terminal cleaning up my files and folders
>>> when i needed a second terminal. When i opened it up the
>>> Color-Coding that was visible in my current terminal, was plain
>>> grey and black. I restart my computer hoping that it would be a
>>> quick fix, but no luck. So i tried tuning the setting, and that
>>> was a bust as well. I restart my Computer and it remains the same,
>>> the color coding is gone. I remember a while back there was a way
>>> to set the color coding, say i was running as root and wanted to
>>> have the Coding running so i could tell directories form
>>> executable and such. Could anybody help w/ this?? It would be
>>> greatly appreciated!
>>> 
>>> Joshua <joshw8104@gmail.com>
>>> 
>> 
>> I am curious whether you "cleaned up" your ~/.bashrc file.
>> 
>> What is the output for this?
>> 
>> $ cat ~/.bashrc
>
> In case you don't have a ~/.bashrc any more (due to overly thorough
> cleaning), one of the first symptoms you might notice is the loss of
> the pretty dircolors in ls output.
>
> So. If in fact you get this sad result...
>
> $ cat ~/.bashrc
> cat: .bashrc: No such file or directory
>
> ... then it is easy to fix. Just copy a new ~/.bashrc file into your
> home directory from /etc/skel, like so:
>
> $ cp -n /etc/skel/.bashrc ~/
>
> Either way, do keep us informed of your progress, or lack thereof.

Threading off-list reply from OP back to debian-user:

On Mon, 2 Jul 2018, Josh W. wrote (off-list to davidson):

> Hello,
> That was exactly what i needed to hear. I had put all "bash*" into a
> folder inside of $HOME and it was not reading it right. When i went
> to find it i remembered that i had done that. I relocated them to
> the proper place and Bam, back in action. My terminal is back to
> Color-Coded! Thanks a million.  God Bless.

Cool. Good to hear good news.

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Terminal Color-Coding "Josh W." <joshw8104@gmail.com> - 2018-07-01 03:10 +0200
  Re: Terminal Color-Coding Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-07-01 04:20 +0200
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    Re: Terminal Color-Coding Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-07-01 11:00 +0200
  Re: Terminal Color-Coding davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2018-07-02 01:30 +0200
    Re: Terminal Color-Coding davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2018-07-02 01:50 +0200
      Re: Terminal Color-Coding davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2018-07-02 20:20 +0200

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