SSH color show only white

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I have been working with different distributions of Linux.

I noticed sometimes when I'm using SSH to connect to another Linux server, sometimes it has color to indicate different folders when I'm using ls command. for example a folder with 777 permission will have green color on it. But sometimes with another Linux server, it only show white color texts.

I prefer to have color displayed. What should I do to enable color indication?

Maybe the shell configurations on those servers don't have ls aliased to ls --color=auto? — Ryan Smith, May 03 '17 at 14:07
Also check the output of echo $TERM on various machines, color and colorless as well. — schaiba, May 03 '17 at 14:08
I found an answer her. I need to edit .bashrc https://askubuntu.com/questions/517677/how-to-get-a-colored-bash — Zhenyu, May 03 '17 at 14:18
Possible duplicate of Colorizing your terminal and shell environment? — G-Man Says 'Reinstate Monica', May 04 '17 at 00:59
Also related: Nested ssh session inside screen has no color, Tmux eclipsed colorized output of ls, and Colored output? — G-Man Says 'Reinstate Monica', May 04 '17 at 01:05

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 03 '17 at 21:10

Make things colored is a part of ANSI/VT100 color codes. As long as your terminal supports that, you can have bunch of features besides colors. I deeply encourange you to have a better understading of that:

Everything else is application depending; for example: pure ls does not color directories and files, but with --color argument - yes.

SSH color show only white

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