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From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: colored prompts in BASH
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> > At work there is one Linux computer and the bash shell there
> > has color prompts for different types of files. I have FreeBSD
> > at home and I would like to have colored prompts.
> > 
> > I have searched in the Bash FAQ and did not find anything
> > regarding colored prompts. I tried the man pages also.
> > 
> > Is this a feature available to Linux only?
> > --------------
> > 
> > If this is a Linux feature would it be too difficult to introduce to
> > FreeBSD?
> > Perhaps it could go into the "low priority" list of things to do.
> 
> Install the packages:
> 
> 1)	color_xterm

color_xterm does not show color_ls produced sequences always.
At least it doesn't when remotely logging into a host
vi a color_xterm. It shows nothing (black characters on black
background :-) I don't know at the moment whether it is a stty setting
or something else causing this. Anyway it's funny when you see an
empty directory until you suddenly realize that you are using
color_ls. It causes more harassing than it benefits.


> 
> 2)	color_ls
> 
> 
> 					Terry Lambert
> 					terry@lambert.org
> ---
> Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> or previous employers.
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de