Terminal problem

[ahtoon83]

hey,
may i know why my terminal dont have color for the file type and directory? coz normally when i open a terminal and ls the directory, the directory should be defferent color and file should be another color. Another one is my command prompt is [bash2.2]$ but not [root@compname]$ ?? every time i change directory the command prompt also didn't change, why?

thank...

[batzee]

Maybe you have your bash configured so that you get colors only for login shells? Try bash -l in your terminal and then ls again.

[ahtoon83]

no, what i mean is in my KDE terminal command line, all my command also dont have color, and even when i want to ls my directory, the filename come out without color, so is hard for me to make sure which is file and which is folder. how can i configure it so that it can have color? thank.

[ahtoon83]

hi, last night i try bash -l already, the prompt seem got color and when i change directory, the promp also can show me the directory where i am, but the problem is the color of the file and directory when i ls still dont have color. Its hard for me to defferential the directory and file. Can u help me? Now everytime when i open terminal, i need to type bash -l, how to type once, and everytime when i open the terminal, i can no need to type this command again? thank.

[ahtoon83]

do u all know how to make it color?

[bkzshabbaz]

If you only want colors when you do a LS, then what you can do is put a alias in ur bashrc file to add the --color option.