How-to make file have different color when doing ls?

Question

When I execute command

ls

it displays files and folders. folders are typed in light blue. I would like to have xml files types in pink color.

How to do it?

Solution 1

You can edit ~/.dircolors, if it doesn't exist you can create it with:

dircolors -p > ~/.dir_colors

As the example here shows, you can have this in your .bashrc:

eval `dircolors ~/.dir_colors`
alias ls="ls --color=auto"

Solution 2

one doesn't need to add anything to the /home/yourusername/.bashrc file since it already contains the nessecary entries

just search for --color and uncomment them so they are active!