From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 13 03:13:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA09419 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 May 1996 03:13:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA09414 for ; Mon, 13 May 1996 03:13:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id TAA19304; Mon, 13 May 1996 19:52:09 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605131022.TAA19304@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: colored prompts in BASH To: Francisco.Reyes@i-2000.com Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 19:52:08 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199605130347.XAA12617@i-2000.com> from "Francisco Reyes" at May 12, 96 11:46:11 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Francisco Reyes stands accused of saying: > At work there is one Linux computer and the bash shell there > has color prompts for different types of files. I have FreeBSD > at home and I would like to have colored prompts. > Grrr, terminology. They aren't "prompts". What you are seeing is the Linux 'ls' command, which uses colour. This is available for FreeBSD in the ports collection as 'linuxls'; 'colorls' is another variation on the same thing. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[