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Thus spake Chris Pressey (cpressey@catseye.mine.nu) [22/09/03 11:54]:
> Also, I believe 'GNU ls', in the ports, supports coloured directory
> listings.

As does FreeBSD's ls.  From 'man 1 ls':

    -G		Enable colorized output.  This option is equivalent to
		defining CLICOLOR in the environment.  (See below.)

I'll leave the rest for you to read.