Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 14:13:32 -0700 (MST) From: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> To: Ron Rosson <insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Color ls Message-ID: <14708.51324.220209.189331@hip186.ch.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <20000718140646.B76011@lunatic.oneinsane.net> References: <20000718140646.B76011@lunatic.oneinsane.net>
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[ On Tuesday, July 18, Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson wrote: ] > > With the change to ls having the 'G' switch addded is there a way to get > it to show colors in other than cons25. I read the man page and it is > not clear on this. > > TIA Hmmmm. I didn't even see the -G switch get put in there, but I can't make ls output any colors. For years I've always just compiled GNU ls out of fileutils and named it 'gls' and used an alias .... not pretty but it works. There's a utility there in fileutils called dircolors which spews shell code to set an ENV variable (so that GNU ls understands which colors to use) given the appropritate ".dir_colors" file. -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds WCCG, CCE, Higher Levels of Abstraction | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 602-868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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