[Bug 135201] Re: background color of symlink in konsole terminal

[PFar73159]

What you are seeing is a broken link.

I was trying to figure out what those colors meant and using a search
engine when I found your entry

Then I remembered that the colors were a feature of the ls command in
UNIX/LINUX

I looked on the manual page for 'ls';  for my setup I had to go to the
terminal command line and type "man ls"

The ls documentation said that you could use the command dircolors to
set the colors, so I went to the manual page for dircolors "man
dircolors".  That page said I could see the database of settings by
using the "-p" option.  So at the command line, I typed "dircolors -p"
this gave me several screens full of output so if your terminal emulator
does not let you scroll back like mine does, you might want to use the
'more' command: "dircolors -p | more"

When I read through this output I found the codes for 'red' (31) and
'black background' (40).  I also found the setting for ORPHAN 01;31;40.
(01 is the code for bold.)  The entry also has a comment explaining that
ORPHAN is a broken symbolic link.  A symbolic link were the file being
pointed to does not exist.

I am new to Ubuntu, but I have played around with UNIX on and off for
many years, sometimes I remember something useful.

I hope this helps you and others.

cheers.

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background color of symlink in konsole terminal
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/135201
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