From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 27 10:04:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA21973 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 10:04:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from www.schell.de (root@[195.20.238.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA21874 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 10:04:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sas@schell.de) Received: from guerilla.foo.bar (root@hennen8.iserlohn.netsurf.de [194.195.194.200]) by www.schell.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA30760; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 19:03:39 +0200 Received: from localhost (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by guerilla.foo.bar (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA02158; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 19:03:30 +0200 Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 19:03:30 +0200 (MET DST) From: Sascha Schumann Reply-To: sas@schell.de To: Barry Grotjahn cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: the ls command with colored output ? In-Reply-To: <35BCA160.76004D08@swn.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Barry Grotjahn wrote: > I searched for a tool so that with the ls command IŽll get the > information colored (to see wheter there are files or directories etc.) > . > I found one : gnuls (on the FreeBSD CDŽs) and I installed it with > pkg_add . > But after reboot the same results : all is in the same color . > Any idea of what to do ? > > Barry Grotjahn It's not enabled by default. Perhaps you are still calling the old ls, btw. A 'ls --version|more' should give more output. alias ls='ls --color -F' alias l='ls -al' I just feel comfortable with that setup (tested it only with bash). Bye, Sascha To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message