From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 29 23:05:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA22352 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 23:05:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from seagull.rtd.com (root@seagull.rtd.com [198.102.68.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA22346 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 23:05:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dgy@localhost) by seagull.rtd.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA21534; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 23:04:41 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis Message-Id: <199607300604.XAA21534@seagull.rtd.com> Subject: Re: Symbolic links or batch files To: jlambert@trout.inet-images.com Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 23:04:41 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199607300533.BAA11378@trout.inet-images.com> from "jlambert@trout.inet-images.com" at Jul 30, 96 01:33:19 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > How yould wowuld I gou about creating a file or link that > runs colorls -G instead of ls? > (sorry, no backspace key.) first, why don't you run 'stty erase ^H' to get your backspace key working, eh? :> as for colorls, create an alias for it: myls() colorls -G $@ should do fine...