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Pass colors from ls through pipe to awk 'print' statement

This is a follow-up to my question from yesterday, Show sum of file sizes in directory listing. Thanks to Zero Piraeus and a point in the right direction by Mauritz Hansen, I now have function ...
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customise ls color for directories contain specified file/s

How can I colorize directories contain files with word INCORRECT inside? Example: I have 3 directories which contain log file. dir_a/log dir_b/log dir_c/log The file log in dir_c contain word ...
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ls and vim color on SunOS 5.8/Solaris 8

I want to use ls and vim with color on Sunos 5.8 SunOS 5.8 Generic_117350-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-2500 I have installed ls (GNU coreutils) 6.9 and vim 7.2 In ~/.cshrc: setenv TERM sun-color ...
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How can I list LS_COLORS in colour?

I recall that eval "dircolors -b" used to display the colours that LS_COLORS was using, based on the file types or extensions. It was not simply the colour values that were displayed but the colours ...
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M-x ansi-term colors in Emacs 24.x

I have noticed that some colors in LS_COLORS don't work when running a shell inside M-x-ansi-term in Emacs. For exmaple; di 00 94 is supposed to turn on bold on light blue on directories on ...
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ls colors for permissions

Is there a way to control the color output of ls to highlight specific permissions on files? (e.g. write permissions). Any options in LS_COLORS that would do this? (the image above is from Dired+ ...
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Setting up LS colors with a human-readable script in tcsh

I have a shell script (set_up_my_ls_colors.sh) that, if I call from my shell, it configures my color scheme for ls. The nice thing about the script is that it allows me to configure colors in a ...
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ls in glorious 256 colours [closed]

Apart from the ls colors solarized theme, is there any other ls colour themes out there that you would recommend for a dark background with a urxvt terminal?
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dircolors “missing second token”

I'd like to customize the colors of ls and as far as I understand the way to go is with dircolors. I did: dircolors > ~/.dircolors Immediately after this I launch a terminal and get this error: ...
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colorizing ls output based on filename

i'm on freeBSD and trying to colorize ls output, so i've added alias ls ls -lhG setenv LSCOLORS gxfxcxdxbxegedabagacad to my .cshrc and it works. but what i really want to - is to be able ...
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Testing LS_COLORS in zsh

A few years ago I found an interesting code snippet that prints each type of file in its corresponding color according to the colors set up in LS_COLORS. Unfortunately, I can't remember the link ...
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Using dircolors, how do I change the color of my subversion folders

Below is a sample of my dircolors file, I want subversion folders (.svn) to be colored, but i guess the extension section only applies to file names. How do i set colors for directories with ...
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Why is Debian's root shell colorless?

Are there any security concerns? What is the best way to enable it?
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Set ls color listings based on regex instead of globbing

Is it possible to set regex patterns for color matching in the LS_COLORS variable? So instead of just *.jpg=38;5;220 Can I do \.(jpg|gif)=38;5;220 That's just an example, I'd like to get more ...
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LS_COLORS settings for specific types of files

I'm trying to set up my color scheme for ls, and I'm having trouble finding information about exactly what parameters I have to work with, or where those come from. And especially setting colors for ...