Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 13:31:57 +0000 From: Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can ls be colorized? Message-ID: <20020111133157.GC720@debian.local> In-Reply-To: <20020111232036.N823@k7.mavetju.org> References: <20020111120320.GA283@debian.local> <20020111232036.N823@k7.mavetju.org>
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On 11 Jan 2002, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > 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 > Now working; thank you. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux GNU/Debian (Windows-free zone) For an electronic book (The Assassins of Alamut), skeptical essays, and over 150 book reviews, go to: http://www.acampbell.org.uk/ Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. [Carl Sagan] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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