From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 30 04:56:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA12326 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 04:56:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from garion.hq.ferg.com (pm1-15.wmbg.widomaker.com [204.17.220.115]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA12321 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 04:56:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.hq.ferg.com (localhost.hq.ferg.com [127.0.0.1]) by garion.hq.ferg.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id HAA15415; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 07:56:59 -0400 Message-Id: <199607301156.HAA15415@garion.hq.ferg.com> X-Authentication-Warning: garion.hq.ferg.com: Host localhost.hq.ferg.com didn't use HELO protocol From: Branson Matheson To: jlambert@trout.inet-images.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LS s In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 30 Jul 1996 00:22:22 EDT." <199607300422.AAA11105@trout.inet-images.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 07:56:59 -0400 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -------- jlambert@trout.inet-images.com uttered with conviction: > I have found that ls is annoying t sorry, my backspace hey won't > work... I have found that ls is annoying as to the fact that it > displays fddisplayers directories in the same way as files (in the > short li sting). I have tried to edit the source code but what is > the variable to s et coloer? like TextATTr or something? thanks. > (The attribute to change to make Printf prin t color) Two things you can do here.. first is to alias ls to ls -FC. This will list directories with \'s and links with @'s and executables with @'s. If you are using X you can use the color_ls package from the packages directory on the ftp server, ftp.freebsd.com. -branson ============================================================================= Branson Matheson | Ferguson Enterprises | If Pete and Repeat were System Administrator | W: (804) 874-7795 | sittin on a fence and Pete Unix, Perl, WWW | branson@widomaker.com | fell off, who is left?