In Cygwin I have the xterm color scheme, which is nice, but I don't like that it colors directories and files the same, i.e. when you do ls and it displays the contents of a directory with sub-directories and files, everything is colored white. What I would like is to have the sub-directories colored something else, e.g. blue, like I have on my Ubuntu machine, so I can easily distinguish which ones are directories. How do I achieve this?
run this command
alias ls="ls --color=auto"
to make it permanent
add this to your ~/.bashrc file