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disable colour in linux terminal

Baiju Kumar.B_1 — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 23:06:33 GMT

Dear guys we are using netterm terminal emulator software for working with linux terminal .when we listing directories ,files or editing using vi editor the screen is getting coloured how we can disable this colour feature of linux

regards
Baiju

Re: disable colour in linux terminal

Matti_Kurkela — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 02:05:55 GMT

The colouring happens because there is a shell alias or a shell function that adds the colouring options to the ls command by default.

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To avoid the colouring in a single command:
use "/bin/ls" instead of just "ls", or use "ls --color=none".

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To disable the colouring for the current session only, depending on which shell you're using and how it is configured, one of the following commands should work:
unalias ls
unset ls

The first command will remove a shell alias named "ls", the second will remove a shell function named "ls".

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If you want to disable the colouring completely for the user(s) for all future sessions, examine the start-up scripts of the shell you're using.

For the Linux standard shell "bash", see /etc/profile, /etc/bashrc (or /etc/bash.bashrc as some distributions use a different name) and /etc/profile.d directory if it exists. Usually there is a function like this defined somewhere:

function ls()
{
/bin/ls -FN --color=auto "$@"
}

Comment this function out to remove the colouring permanently.

MK

Re: disable colour in linux terminal

Wouter Jagers — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 02:08:00 GMT

Hiya,

For one command:
# ls --color=none

To just disable it alltogether, remove the alias for ls:
# unalias ls

Hope that helps,
Cheers,
Wout

Re: disable colour in linux terminal

Ivan Ferreira — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:34:24 GMT

Try also:

export TERM=linux-m

Re: disable colour in linux terminal

Jess Long — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:09:01 GMT

If you want to disable color for all users and all sessions, edit the file /etc/DIR_COLORS and replace the line that reads, 'COLOR all' with 'COLOR none'.

If you want to disable color for a given user, then in that user's home directory, edit or create a file named '.dircolors' or '.dir_colors', and make sure there is a line that reads, 'COLOR none'.

Re: disable colour in linux terminal

Tobu — Fri, 04 May 2007 02:08:12 GMT

"#alias ls=ls" is easiest option.