Remove color from 'ls' output

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drhowarddrfine

Something updated when I either went to 12.0 or some other update but I don't remember, and can't find how, to have a monochrome, white on black, output from ls while in sh on x11-wm/i3. When I'm root, it works as desired. It's only when I'm logged in as a user.

I haven't touched this in years so I can't figure out how to revert back.
 
I don't use Xorg but for the console it's env variable called CLICOLOR and COLORTERM for terminals.

for example in csh you can do this

#this will disable console colors
unsetenv CLICOLOR
or
#check and modify the alias if any in .cshrc for ls command to enable/disable colorized output
alias ls ls -G
where -G enables the colorized output

for virtual terminals check the options in the terminal itself.

#edit
you can check ~/.profile file for the user and there to remove the CLICOLOR env
 
I've done all those things to no avail. I am wondering if it's a setting in i3 but I don't see anything and, as I said, in root ls doesn't display color.

I did put alias ls ls --color=none in root's .cshrc file and removing that introduces color in ls for root. I created a .shrc file for me as user but that won't work there.
 
I might be onto something. I'm using urxvt and I'm betting I need to look into the configuration there. I did look there but didn't immediately see anything but I have a hunch therein lies the problem.
 
maybe in c:

Code: 
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>   //chdir
#include <dirent.h>

int main( int argc, char *argv[])
{
    if ( argc >= 2)
      if ( strcmp( argv[1] , "" ) !=  0 )
     chdir( argv[ 1 ] );

   DIR *dirp;
   struct dirent *dp;
   dirp = opendir( "." );
   while  ((dp = readdir( dirp )) != NULL )
   {
         if (  strcmp( dp->d_name, "." ) != 0 )
         if (  strcmp( dp->d_name, ".." ) != 0 )
             printf( "%s\n", dp->d_name );
   }
   closedir( dirp );
   return 0;
}

clang ls.c -o ls ; ./ls
 
drhowarddrfine said:
I'm using urxvt and I'm betting I need to look into the configuration there. I did look there but didn't immediately see anything but I have a hunch therein lies the problem.
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For sh(1) make sure to check files like ~/.profile and /etc/profile. For xterm/urxvt you may have some settings in ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources.
 
Done that. It seems like I used to have a .urxvt file and no longer do. There are settings in .Xdefaults but the same as always and I specify foregroud and background which is probably why everything else is mono.

Something has changed somewhere and I thought I read on the mailing list that it had to do with ls
 
drhowarddrfine said:
I've done all those things to no avail. I am wondering if it's a setting in i3 but I don't see anything and, as I said, in root ls doesn't display color.

I did put alias ls ls --color=none in root's .cshrc file and removing that introduces color in ls for root. I created a .shrc file for me as user but that won't work there.
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FreeBSD ls(1) doesn't support long options. The fact you use --color=none to remove the colouring means you've installed misc/gnuls and configured your user to use that (whether via alias or putting /usr/local/bin ahead of /bin in your PATH).

What happens if you execute /bin/ls directly? Bet it's black and white. :D

Edit: nevermind, it seems the FreeBSD version of ls in 12.0 now support --color= option. It's not available on my 10.x systems, which is where I'm reading man pages from. :D
 
phoenix Then I guess that confirms what I just said about reading something about ls. I just need to know where I can put the color option to make this permanent.
 
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