From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 21 16:52:53 2001 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 EE5CB37B42B for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 16:52:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from k7.mavetju.org (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 308792B705; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 01:52:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: by k7.mavetju.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id DEAD97B; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 09:52:42 +1000 (EST) Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 09:52:42 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis To: David Loszewski Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: making the shell more entertaining Message-ID: <20010922095242.E10641@k7.mavetju.org> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , David Loszewski , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <004901c142f7$b55b4f20$3000b1d8@sickness> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <004901c142f7$b55b4f20$3000b1d8@sickness>; from stealth215@mediaone.net on Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 07:46:57PM -0400 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, Sep 21, 2001 at 07:46:57PM -0400, David Loszewski wrote: > I tried to make the shell a little more entertaining so I put "alias > ls='ls --color --classify" in the .profile. But then when I type 'ls' > it says that -classify isn't a file or directory. Ideas? If you do "man ls", you'll see that --color and --classify are not in the list of options. I don't know what --classify does, but --color could be emulated with -G. 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