In Putty, what do the colors on files and folders represent?
I looked through the documentation of Putty but couldn't find the answer. What do the different colors on files and folders signify?
Solution 1:
It's not putty - run the dircolors -p command it will tell you what color maps to each known file type.
Solution 2:
It's not puTTY that does the coloring, it's likely dircolors. The specific will vary from distro-to-distro but you can get a good idea of how this works from man dircolors
For instance on my Debian install:
- Directories -> Dark blue
- Symlinks -> Cyan
You can also try echo $LS_COLORS to see what's stored in there. You will see the coloring rules in this variable.