From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 19 21:03:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA05070 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 May 1998 21:03:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt050n33.san.rr.com (@dt053nd2.san.rr.com [204.210.34.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA04898 for ; Tue, 19 May 1998 21:02:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt050n33.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA09395; Tue, 19 May 1998 21:01:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Message-ID: <35625593.78B5F2B0@dal.net> Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 21:01:23 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE-0507 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "JuSt pLaiN ol' me" CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setting an alias.. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG JuSt pLaiN ol' me wrote: > > Hello, > > How (with the bash shell) do i set it so that when typing ls, it > will actually do colorls -FG ? > > I tried in .profile putting alias ls = 'colorls -FG' You probably want to do that in ~/.bash_profile, and use ls='colorls -FG' (notice no spaces around the =). Good luck, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message