Snippet to unify coloring of filetypes by their extension in bash

.bashrc

# Text files
LS_TEXT_FILES=(229 txt js py rb c cpp sh conf cfg pl log xml html php cer cfm csr css htm jsp)
# Archive files
LS_ARCH_FILES=(161 zip 7z Z rar tar.gz tar tar.xz tar.bz2 bz2 gz tbz2 tgz)

LS_FILE_EXTS=(LS_TEXT_FILES LS_ARCH_FILES)

LS_COLORS=""
for e in ${LS_FILE_EXTS[*]}; do
  eval c=(\${$e[*]})
  for ((i=1; i<${#c[@]}; i++)) do
     LS_COLORS="$LS_COLORS:*.${c[$i]}=38;5;${c[0]}"
  done
done

export LS_COLORS="$LS_COLORS:di=38;5;81"