'Weird color under /dev/ using iterm2 Solarized Dark theme
I'm using iterm2 with color presets "Solarized dark" + oh-my-zsh. The color looks really weird under /dev/ folder when I type "ls" command. Is that normal?
Solution 1:[1]
This is not particular to solarized theme or iterm, indeed. This is also true for the vanilla theme and also for macos terminal.
As I learned here, linux (and also macos) stores metadata for file types, and all of the painted ones are of type "character device". You can assert that by doing ls -l and checking their linux rwx string starts with the letter "c". Quoting the referenced webpage:
Character and block device files allow users and programs to communicate with hardware peripheral devices.
So this is the standard way terminals in macos choose to display elements of the filesystem hierarchy that are neither files not directories nor simlinks.
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| Solution 1 | Damián Ferencz |