disable colour in linux terminal

[Baiju Kumar.B_1]

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

[Matti_Kurkela]

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

[Wouter Jagers]

Hiya,

For one command:
# ls --color=none

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

Hope that helps,
Cheers,
Wout

[Ivan Ferreira]

Try also:

export TERM=linux-m

[Jess Long]

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'.

[Tobu]

"#alias ls=ls" is easiest option.