From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 9 4:48:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail0.bna.bellsouth.net (mail0.bna.bellsouth.net [205.152.150.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C64CB37B4C5 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 04:48:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from bellsouth.net (adsl-63-164-15.bna.bellsouth.net [208.63.164.15]) by mail0.bna.bellsouth.net (3.3.5alt/0.75.2) with ESMTP id HAA11567; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 07:48:49 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A0A9F9A.3ECE9437@bellsouth.net> Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 06:59:06 -0600 From: Drew Sanford X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Nelson Cc: Veronica Hunt , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: umm.. colors? References: <004b01c049fb$4360a500$0302a8c0@cleopatra> <20001108212708.B2156@dan.emsphone.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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