title: How do you determine what bash ls colours mean?
body: <p>When you perform <code>ls</code> in a bash shell, sometimes there are colours to indicate different resource types, and you can enable/control this with the <code>--color</code> argument.</p>
  
  <p>But neither the man page nor Google is providing an answer to the question:</p>
  
  <p><strong>What do these colours indicate by default, and how do I display what the current system uses?</strong></p>
  
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  <p><strong><em>UPDATE:</em></strong></p>
  
  <p>Thanks everyone for answers so far, however to make it easier to pick a winner, can anyone go a step further and provide a method to output descriptions in the colours they apply to.</p>
  
  <p>Hmmm... my example doesn't work when posted (only when previewed), so if you preview this code it'll show what I mean...</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;ul style="list-style:none; background:black; margin:0;padding:0.5em; width:10em"&gt;
    &lt;li style="color:blue"&gt;directory&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li style="color:aqua"&gt;symbolic link&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li style="color:#A00000;"&gt;*.tar files&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li style="color:white"&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;/ul&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>