Green: Executable or recognized data file. Cyan (Sky Blue): Symbolic link file. Yellow with black background: Device.

What do the colors mean in Linux?

White (No color code): Regular File or Normal File. Blue: Directory. Bright Green: Executable File. Bright Red: Archive file or Compressed File.

How do you color text in Linux?

Here we are doing anything special into C++ code. We are just using some linux terminal commands to do this. The command for this kind of output is like below. There are some codes for text styles and colors.
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How to output colored text to a Linux terminal?