From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 14 13:39:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5CD614DA1 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 13:39:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id WAA20816 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 22:39:14 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA43026 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 22:14:43 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Colour coding Date: 14 Nov 1999 22:14:42 +0100 Message-ID: <80n8o2$1a04$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <19991114104735.65228.qmail@hotmail.com> <80mele$sab$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <382F18D1.49FE3C48@gorean.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <382F18D1.49FE3C48@gorean.org>, Doug Barton wrote: > > Hideous. > > This kind of commentary really isn't helpful. And I even refrained from voicing my thoughts more explicitly due to this being a public forum. > However denegrating other people's choices doesn't help anything, > and contributes to the perception that new users who post to > -questions will be harped on. Look, I answered the question instead of flaming the original poster for not checking the archives where the very same question has been answered a zillion times. There's hardly a way to be more nice. > I like being able to see at a glance what everything is. Sure. naddy@bigeye[~] fgrep -w ls .bashrc alias ll='/bin/ls -l' alias ls='/bin/ls -F' > I keep intending to try colorls, just haven't gotten around to it. colorls is a(n old) version of FreeBSD ls with a small patch to add color output if the -G switch is present. Apparently I'm not alone in my opinion on its aesthetics, otherwise it would have been merged into FreeBSD proper a long time ago. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message