It’s important to do two issues:

• set the LSCOLORS surroundings variable
• create an alias for ls in order that it reveals colours by default

If you’re utilizing Zsh – beginning with Catalina it is the default shell, see MacOs Terminal zsh – can not use ansi. In any other case for Bash edit ~/.bash_profile and add the next:

export LSCOLORS="EHfxcxdxBxegecabagacad" 

alias ls="ls -lGH"        <-----This reveals in record format, observe symlinks colorized

The the colours are set by every bit above; the primary being foreground and the second being background. The primary two characters check with directories having a daring blue foreground and a light-weight gray background.

Nonetheless, there’s an awesome on-line utility to see what every of the colours imply and appear to be in actual time. It can even generate the “code” for you. (I’m not affiliated with this in any respect). It can work in each MacOS/FreeBSD and Linux. Be sure to choose the BSD possibility for macOS.

LSCOLORS Calculator

The order of the attributes are as follows:

1.   listing
2.   symbolic hyperlink
3.   socket
4.   pipe
5.   executable
6.   block particular
7.   character particular
8.   executable with setuid bit set
9.   executable with setgid bit set
10.   listing writable to others, with sticky bit
11.   listing writable to others, with out sticky

The colour designators are as follows:

a    black
b    pink
c    inexperienced
d    brown
e    blue
f    magenta
g    cyan
h    gentle gray
A    daring black, normally reveals up as darkish gray
B    daring pink
C    daring inexperienced
D    daring brown, normally reveals up as yellow
E    daring blue
F    daring magenta
G    daring cyan
H    daring gentle gray; appears like shiny white
x    default foreground or background