ls colour codes on OpenSuSE tumbleweed when accessed from Mac OS X ssh

`ls` colour codes

I got confused as I thought red text would mean an error.

But they’re not: greenish yellow on a read background means error (a symbolic link to a place that’s no longer there).

It’s the output of https://github.com/gkotian/gautam_linux/blob/master/scripts/colours.sh as the one at

Actually the script is here https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gkotian/gautam_linux/master/scripts/colours.sh as the one at [WayBack] command line – What do the different colors mean in the terminal? – Ask Ubuntu failed with errors like this one:

-bash: *.xbm: bad substitution

The full script output is below.

Since various terminals have a different mapping from colours in the ANSI escape code colour table, I used the standard HTML colours using (which slightly differs from the Terminal.app screenshot on the right):

• HTML colour styles from HTML Color Names and HTML Color Values and
• (since LS_COLORS uses dircolors which depends on the ISO 6429 color encoding) ANSI escape code: Colors.

References:

• [WayBack] dir_colors(5): config file for dircolors – Linux man page
• [WayBack] HTML Color Names and [WayBack] HTML Color Values
• ANSI escape code: Colors – Wikipedia

Note that the shell on Mac OS X uses a different way of configuring colours CLICOLOR as described in [WayBack] settings – CLICOLOR and LS_COLORS in bash – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange. I might cover that another day.

Script output:

Global default
Normal file
Directory
Symbolic link
Named pipe
Socket
Door
Block device
Character device
Orphaned symbolic link (on some terminals this also blinks)
Executable
*.cmd (TODO: get description)
*.exe (TODO: get description)
*.com (TODO: get description)
*.bat (TODO: get description)
*.btm (TODO: get description)
*.dll (TODO: get description)
*.tar (TODO: get description)
*.tbz (TODO: get description)
*.tgz (TODO: get description)
*.rpm (TODO: get description)
*.deb (TODO: get description)
*.arj (TODO: get description)
*.taz (TODO: get description)
*.lzh (TODO: get description)
*.lzma (TODO: get description)
*.zip (TODO: get description)
*.zoo (TODO: get description)
*.z (TODO: get description)
*.Z (TODO: get description)
*.gz (TODO: get description)
*.bz2 (TODO: get description)
*.tb2 (TODO: get description)
*.tz2 (TODO: get description)
*.tbz2 (TODO: get description)
*.xz (TODO: get description)
*.avi (TODO: get description)
*.bmp (TODO: get description)
*.fli (TODO: get description)
*.gif (TODO: get description)
*.jpg (TODO: get description)
*.jpeg (TODO: get description)
*.mng (TODO: get description)
*.mov (TODO: get description)
*.mpg (TODO: get description)
*.pcx (TODO: get description)
*.pbm (TODO: get description)
*.pgm (TODO: get description)
*.png (TODO: get description)
*.ppm (TODO: get description)
*.tga (TODO: get description)
*.tif (TODO: get description)
*.xbm (TODO: get description)
*.xpm (TODO: get description)
*.dl (TODO: get description)
*.gl (TODO: get description)
*.wmv (TODO: get description)
*.aiff (TODO: get description)
*.au (TODO: get description)
*.mid (TODO: get description)
*.mp3 (TODO: get description)
*.ogg (TODO: get description)
*.voc (TODO: get description)
*.wav (TODO: get description)

–jeroen