As is often the case, the nix defaults for ls are spartan. I finally got around to wrestling my ls color settings into submission. On macos/zsh, gdircolors gave inconsistent results, so I set the LS_COLORS environment var directly.
Snips:
install gls
brew install coreutils
.zshrc
if [[ "$(uname)" = "Darwin" ]]; then # macos uses a different 'ls' export CLICOLOR=1 source "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/zsh/.dir_colors" alias l="gls -ahF --group-directories-first --color=always" else alias l="ls -ah --color --group-directories-first" fi
~/.config/zsh/.dir_colors
# Attribute codes: # 00=none 01=bold 04=underscore 05=blink 07=reverse 08=concealed # Text color codes: # 30=black 31=red 32=green 33=yellow 34=blue 35=magenta 36=cyan 37=white # Background color codes: # 40=black 41=red 42=green 43=yellow 44=blue 45=magenta 46=cyan 47=white export LS_COLORS='rs=0:di=00;34:ln=00;37:mh=00:pi=40;33:so=00;35:do=00;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:mi=00:su=37;41:sg=30;43:ca=30;41:tw=30;42:ow=34;42:st=37;44:ex=00;33:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:'
The full goodies:
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