From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 11 4:21:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC0DB37B417 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 04:21:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from k7.mavetju.org (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26C5B2B75C; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 13:20:53 +0100 (CET) Received: by k7.mavetju.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8FCA34BD; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 23:20:36 +1100 (EST) Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 23:20:36 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Anthony Campbell Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can ls be colorized? Message-ID: <20020111232036.N823@k7.mavetju.org> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Anthony Campbell , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020111120320.GA283@debian.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020111120320.GA283@debian.local>; from ac@acampbell.org.uk on Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 12:03:20PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 12:03:20PM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Is it possible to get the output of ls to be colorized in xterms? > > I have colordepth = 16, and can have the cursor in colour, but ls -G > doesn't produce colour output. You have to make sure that your TERM variable is xterm-color, not "just" xterm. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message