From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 11 5:32:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCD8537B41B for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 05:32:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost ([62.252.176.116]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020111133234.QNMX8780.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@localhost> for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 13:32:34 +0000 Received: from ac by localhost with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16P1mn-0000CM-00 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 13:31:57 +0000 Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 13:31:57 +0000 From: Anthony Campbell To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can ls be colorized? Message-ID: <20020111133157.GC720@debian.local> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020111120320.GA283@debian.local> <20020111232036.N823@k7.mavetju.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020111232036.N823@k7.mavetju.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i 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 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