From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 13 09:21:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA02334 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 May 1996 09:21:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from plum.blueberry.co.uk ([194.70.52.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA02322 for ; Mon, 13 May 1996 09:21:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nik@localhost) by plum.blueberry.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.12) id RAA27068; Mon, 13 May 1996 17:15:08 +0100 (BST) From: Nik Clayton Message-Id: <199605131615.RAA27068@plum.blueberry.co.uk> Subject: Re: colored prompts in BASH To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 17:15:08 +0100 (BST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199605131022.TAA19304@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at May 13, 96 07:52:08 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Content-Type: text 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. Hmm. This wouldn't be embedding ANSI escape sequences into $PROMPT, and then using a colour xterm (or the console) to get coloured prompts would it? Just before *everyone* jumps on this guys back. N -- --+=[ Blueberry Hill Blueberry Design ]=+-- --+=[ http://www.blueberry.co.uk/ 1/9 Chelsea Harbour Design Centre, ]=+-- --+=[ WebMaster@blueberry.co.uk London, England, SW10 0XE ]=+-- --+=[ "I want my sun-drenched, wind-swept, Ingrid Bergman kiss. . ." ]ENTP