From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 28 05:08:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA28028 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 05:08:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from BIGFUN.vwcom.com (BIGFUN.vwcom.com [151.197.101.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA28020 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 05:08:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from WillsCreek.COM (gw.willscreek.com [151.197.101.46]) by BIGFUN.vwcom.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id IAA18493 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 08:03:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from current.willscreek.com (current.willscreek.com [172.16.87.1]) by WillsCreek.COM (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA08856 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 08:08:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from bmc@localhost) by current.willscreek.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA12609; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 08:08:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 08:08:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199709281208.IAA12609@current.willscreek.com> From: Brian Clapper MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Color ls package In-Reply-To: <30608785@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.23 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Eivind Eklund wrote: > Personally, I prefer the linuxls package over colorls - if you use > alias ls='linuxls --color=tty' > you can pipe the output and it is still usable. BTW, if you do decide to use the `linuxls' port and you wish to pull it down from ftp.FreeBSD.COM, note that its name has changed recently to `gnuls'. ----- Brian Clapper, bmc@WillsCreek.COM, http://WWW.WillsCreek.COM/ "When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen." -- Richard Nixon as a boy (on the Teapot Dome scandal)