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 >> Is there a way of changing the default text colours
 >> used by mintty for directories, links, executables, etc?

 >  From man mintty: use
 >  echo $'\e]4;3;255,255,0\a'
 >  and similarly, in a script.

I am using

echo $'\e]4;3;255,  0,  0\a' # color3 for devices
echo $'\e]4;6;139, 69, 19\a' # color6 for links

in .bashrc with the consequence that each new mintty terminal starts 
with 2 blank lines. Is there a way I can set the colors but suppress the 
newlines?

Thank you.

Fergus


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