PuTTY is a damn useful app for when it comes to gaining remote access into a machine via SSH or Telnet, and has more than proven its worth to serious geeks over the years since it was first released.
But here’s a question that you’ll be asking if you are new to the whole command line SSH into Linux access thing:
“Just what does all the colour-coding (when it comes to folder listings) displayed in PuTTY mean?”
Well, basically the colour-coding is to expediate file type recognition. For example, the default colour set is as follows (thanks Google!):
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