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From: Rene Scott <rene@tp98.catv.szabinet.hu>
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To: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@speakeasy.org>
Cc: Matthew Jonkman <jonkman@jonkmangarage.com>,
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Subject: Re: Shell Color Coding
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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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