Change Color to Black and White

[george_114]

How can i change my dir color to black and white dan text color when i using vi to black and white color too.Please help me bcz my eyes have iritated bcz of it.

[Stuart Browne]

The directory listsings is done by aliasing the 'ls' command to 'ls --color=tty'.

Simple solution, 'unlias ls'.

To remove this permenantly, either put this in your '~/.bashrc', or 'chmod -x /etc/profile.d/colorls.sh' (which is the part of the loging process which creates the alaises).

[Stuart Browne]

Umm, I suppose I should say that the later part is for RH systems. I'm unsure how other distributions achieve this. Possibly in the /etc/profile, or something similar.

[george_114]

Hi Stuart, I have removed file /etc/profile.d/colorls.sh and after that i logout and login again when i do ls -l, it's color is black and white but when i do vi a text file, the blue dark color appear again even i have exited from that file and do ls -l again, it's color appears same, dark blue..... Why ???

[Stuart Browne · Accepted solution]

Ooops, forgot about vi, my apologies.

Add the following line your ~/.vimrc file:

syntax off

That should turn off syntax highlighting (i.e. colors).