From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 18 15:23:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA21797 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 15:23:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [134.147.6.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA21790 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 15:23:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from roberte@localhost) by ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.8.5/8.8.4) id AAA00550; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 00:22:57 +0200 (MESZ) From: Robert Eckardt Message-Id: <199708182222.AAA00550@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Subject: Re: color ls In-Reply-To: from Gabriele Cecchetti at "Aug 18, 97 11:50:01 am" To: gabriele@docenti.ing.unipi.it (Gabriele Cecchetti) Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 00:22:56 +0200 (MESZ) Cc: roberte@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de, francis@cody.usls.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It was Gabriele Cecchetti who wrote: > > a) you install the package colorls-....tgz > > > > b) you use -G > > > > Robert > > Why don't add this functionality to standard ls ? > > /bin/ls -G Then you might ask, why not add GNU-ls's -S and SysV ls's -x ? (May be, just because it wasn't there in the past.) Robert > email: gabriele@ing.unipi.it Via Lenin 127 -- Robert Eckardt \\ FreeBSD -- solutions for a large universe.(tm) RobertE@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de \\ What do you want to boot tomorrow ?(tm) http://WWW.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de/~roberte For PGP-key finger roberte@gluon.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de