Coloring directories and files under a terminal?

Question

Hi everyone,
I know, and have the option running, that with the ls --color=auto i get colored files, but... i want to be able to colour my self the different type of files, (like brown for zip, tgz and such, blue for avi, mp3, ogg... see the idea?)
Does anyone have a clue on how to acomplish this?

Answer 1

On some systems you can just edit /etc/DIR_COLORS
Arch appears to use a binary program /bin/dircolors. Running that produces this output:
~)$ dircolors
LS_COLORS='no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:
bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:
*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:
*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:
*.bmp=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:
*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:
*.mpeg=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.xcf=01;35:*.xwd=01;35:
*.ogg=01;35:*.mp3=01;35:*.wav=01;35:';
export LS_COLORS
You could trying setting LS_COLORS in your .bashrc file and make the appropriate changes.