From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 8 20:27:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-4.sjc.telocity.net (mail-4.sjc.telocity.net [216.227.56.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D1BD37B479 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 20:27:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from zoso (dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com [216.227.91.85]) by mail-4.sjc.telocity.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA01603; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 20:23:52 -0800 (PST) From: "Otter" To: "Dan Nelson" , "Veronica Hunt" Cc: Subject: RE: umm.. colors? Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 23:31:27 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-reply-to: <20001108212708.B2156@dan.emsphone.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As Dan stated, ls will do it now... from the man page, check out the -G flag. There's a gnuls available as well. -Otter }-----Original Message----- }From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG }[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Dan Nelson }Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 10:27 PM }To: Veronica Hunt }Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG }Subject: Re: umm.. colors? } } }In the last episode (Nov 08), Veronica Hunt said: }> i installed freebsd like 5 years ago, and at that time I thought it }> even had color in its dir listing?? maybe I did something to do }> this.. but then I went to slackware and forgot about it.. well i }> have done the linux thing for about 5 years, so i am switching to }> freebsd to learn this excisting o/s.. can freebsd do the color in }> dirs like linux? thanks. } }Color directory listings has nothing to do with the OS }you're running. }It all depends on the "ls" program. FreeBSD has }historically not had a }color ls, and you had to install either the "colorls" or }"linuxls" from }ports. FreeBSD 4.1 and later versions now have an ls that }can be told }to print in color, though. } }-- } Dan Nelson } dnelson@emsphone.com } } }To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org }with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message