Have you tried adding this to your .bashrc? alias ls='ls --color=auto' basically just tells bash to execute "ls --color=auto" instead of just ls. Hope that helps you ;) mfg vIiRuS On 08/20/2010 02:43 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote: > It's very frustrating in Arch that my directories[blue], text > files[white], tarballs[red], symbolic links[blue], and scripts[green] > are all the same color. How can I colorize this in bash so my Arch > Linux system is much easier to sort through? > > I checked the Wiki and only found something about colorizing my PS1 > which is not what I really care about. > > Thanks for any help... >