Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 06:59:06 -0600 From: Drew Sanford <lauasanf@bellsouth.net> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: Veronica Hunt <vhunt@satx.rr.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: umm.. colors? Message-ID: <3A0A9F9A.3ECE9437@bellsouth.net> References: <004b01c049fb$4360a500$0302a8c0@cleopatra> <20001108212708.B2156@dan.emsphone.com>
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Dan Nelson wrote: > > 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. > I aliased ls to ls -FGb, that appears to work just fine. -- Drew Sanford lauasanf@bellsouth.net or drew@planetwe.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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