From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 13 04:49:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA14523 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 May 1996 04:49:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tolip.njin.net (tolip.njin.net [165.230.224.140]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA14518 for ; Mon, 13 May 1996 04:49:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pilot.njin.net (pilot.njin.net [165.230.224.139]) by tolip.njin.net (8.6.12+bestmx+oldruq+newsunq/8.6.12) with SMTP id HAA20272; Mon, 13 May 1996 07:46:25 -0400 Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 07:49:52 -0400 (EDT) From: David X-Sender: btjones@pilot.njin.net To: "freyes@i-2000.com" cc: FreeBSD questions mailing list Subject: Re: colored prompts in BASH In-Reply-To: <199605130347.XAA12617@i-2000.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 12 May 1996, Francisco Reyes wrote: > I tried posting this question in the comp.unix.shell, but my post > failed so here it goes.. > ---------------- > 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. > > I have searched in the Bash FAQ and did not find anything > regarding colored prompts. I tried the man pages also. > > Is this a feature available to Linux only? I don't believe so. I'm almost positive what you are referring to is the color-ls package, which has been ported to FreeBSD already. It's available as a package on ftp.freebsd.org. colorls-2.1.tgz is the actual filename, which can be retrieved from /pub/FreeBSD/packages/All. ..djw