Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 08:40:45 -0500 (CDT) From: Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: Oleg Ogurok <oleg@ogurok.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: colour 'ls' Message-ID: <14097.63258.197376.207383@zuhause.mn.org> In-Reply-To: <xzpwvzivgir.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904110950510.36002-100000@ogurok.com> <xzpwvzivgir.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: > Oleg Ogurok <oleg@ogurok.com> writes: > > I put ls as a symbolic link to gnuls, but every time I make world, the old > > 'ls' puts back ;-) > > Don't do that. Instead, do: > > # cd /usr/local/bin > # ln -s gnuls ls > > and fix your PATH so /usr/local/bin comes before /bin. Better yet, set up an alias of ls = "ls --color" when the shell is an interactive shell, and then you don't get the color escape sequences when running scripts or if you escape ls with \ls when outputting to a file. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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