> Arrghhh this is driving me mad.
> I'm sure its something trivial but how does one
> switch ls colors off?
 
> I've got:
 
> Colors=none in /etc/DIR_COLORS
 
> $LS_COLORS=''
 
> But it still uses colors....

unset LS_COLORS

type $ alias ls
and check that ls hasn't been aliased to some fancy
colouring thing
(a lot of Linux versions have
$ alias ls
alias ls='ls --color=tty')

unalias ls
will give you back the raw ls with no colouring

Stuart.



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