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From: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx>
To: Trevin Chow <tmchow@sfu.ca>
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Subject: Re: Color ls problems
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On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:12:13PM -0700, Trevin Chow wrote:
> I'm using this function (as suggested by someone on the list awhile ago) to
> display a colorized "ls":
> 
> function ls
> {
>    command ls -FG ${1+"$@"};
> }
> 
> 
> This function is located in my /etc/bashrc file.
> 
> For some reason, it's not showing up colorized ls listings with my TERM set 
> to vt100.
> Oddly, if I set it to "linux" it works... What's going on here?

First... that function is absolutely ridiculous. Simply create an alias
in the bashrc file, of the following form:

	alias ls="ls -F"

Second... vt100 is monochrome. If you're in a console, set the TERM
variable to cons25 (assuming your using syscons). If you are running an
xterm, the proper type is xterm-color.

-- 
Andrew Hesford
ajh3@chmod.ath.cx

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