Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 00:01:16 +0100 (CET) From: Rene Scott <rene@tp98.catv.szabinet.hu> To: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@speakeasy.org> Cc: Matthew Jonkman <jonkman@jonkmangarage.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Shell Color Coding Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003222352390.82633-100000@tp98.catv.szabinet.hu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003211742580.2701-100000@mammalia.sea>
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On Mar 21 R Joseph Wright wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Matthew Jonkman wrote:
>
> > A while ago I saw a little app that would color code the files and
> > directories in a shell. I think it was on a linux box which probably does
> > that by default.
> >
> > Does anyone know of a similar deal for freebsd? Seems like that would save a
> > boat-load of time scanning for certain things in ls outputs.
> >
> I use "gnuls" (/usr/ports/misc/gnuls).
> Then I added the line [alias ls='gnuls --color=always'] to ~/.profile and
> ~/.bashrc. If you're not using bash, put the alias in whatever shell
> dotfiles you have.
Maybe a better approach to define a function like
function ls
{
gnuls --color=auto $@
}
And with 'alias ls='gnuls --color=always' the following shell code on
the command line should fail:
for i in `ls`; do
...
done
Rene
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