zsh: How to set LS_COLOR to show any tar file as different color than white?

Question

I am using zsh

When I do ls: for any compressed file type such as .tar.gz, .tbz2, .zip I get them as white and not bold.On the other hand, in bash its color is red and in bold.

Is it possible to give different color than white to any compressed file type in zsh?

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$ ls --version
ls (GNU coreutils) 8.30

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I have following setup in me .zshrc file:

export CLICOLOR=1
export LS_COLORS="$LS_COLORS:ow=1;34:tw=1;34:"
export LSCOLORS=ExGxBxDxCxEgEdxbxgxcxd

ls: aliased to ls -h --color=always -v --author --time-style=long-iso

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When I remote connect to a machine default in zsh shell tar files' color is white. Than I switch to bash and switch bach to zsh, then its color is changed back to red. Is it possible to have to behavior by default in zsh?

Answer 1

Based on your comment, your $LS_COLORS doesn't include any compressed files, or any file extensions at all for that matter.

:ow=1;34:tw=1;34::ow=1;34:tw=1;34:

To start:

export LS_COLORS="$LS_COLORS:ow=1;34:tw=1;34:*.tar=1;31:*.gz=1;31:*.tbz2=1;31"

In full for compressed files, you could add this:

*.tar=1;31:*.tgz=1;31:*.arj=1;31:*.taz=1;31:*.lzh=1;31:*.lzma=1;31:*.tlz=1;31:*.txz=1;31:*.zip=1;31:*.z=1;31:*.Z=1;31:*.dz=1;31:*.gz=1;31:*.lz=1;31:*.xz=1;31:*.bz2=1;31:*.bz=1;31:*.tbz=1;31:*.tbz2=1;31:*.tz=1;31:*.deb=1;31:*.rpm=1;31:*.jar=1;31:*.war=1;31:*.ear=1;31:*.sar=1;31:*.rar=1;31:*.ace=1;31:*.zoo=1;31:*.cpio=1;31:*.7z=1;31:*.rz=1;31