SOLVED: Where does terminal color scheme in 17.3 come from?

[pccobbler]

In 18 and later, I can comment-out the 30 or so lines following "uncomment for a colored prompt" to eliminate the avocado green color in a terminal. But in 17.3, there is no .bashrc file. Where does 17.3 get its color scheme from? I assume there's a .bashrc in a system directory that users use, but where is that?

[rene]

The defaults are actually internal to the program dircolors and can be viewed with dircolors -p. To customize per user resp. system wide do

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dircolors -p >~/.dir_colors

resp.

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dircolors -p | sudo tee /etc/DIR_COLORS

and edit the created file. The global /etc/bash.bashrc uses it through on startup eval $(dircolors -b ~/.dir_colors) or same with /etc/DIR_COLORS if ~/.dir_colors does not exist; you can do as well so to test changes immediately without the need to restart bash.

[pccobbler]

Verrrrrry interesting, lots of things to play with in that file. Thanks!