From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 18 14:13:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pan.ch.intel.com (pan.ch.intel.com [143.182.246.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5552F37BB40 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 14:13:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com) Received: from sedona.intel.com (sedona.ch.intel.com [143.182.218.21]) by pan.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a+p1/8.9.1/d: relay.m4,v 1.30 2000/06/08 18:25:35 dmccart Exp $) with ESMTP id OAA11051; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 14:13:33 -0700 (MST) Received: from hip186.ch.intel.com (hip186.ch.intel.com [143.182.225.68]) by sedona.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: sendmail.cf,v 1.10 2000/02/10 21:38:16 steved Exp $) with ESMTP id OAA22941; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 14:13:32 -0700 (MST) X-Envelope-From: jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com Received: (from jreynold@localhost) by hip186.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: client.m4,v 1.3 1998/09/29 16:36:11 sedayao Exp sedayao $) id RAA01322; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:13:32 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: hip186.ch.intel.com: jreynold set sender to jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com using -f From: John Reynolds~ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14708.51324.220209.189331@hip186.ch.intel.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 14:13:32 -0700 (MST) To: Ron Rosson Subject: Re: Color ls In-Reply-To: <20000718140646.B76011@lunatic.oneinsane.net> References: <20000718140646.B76011@lunatic.oneinsane.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under Emacs 20.6.3 Cc: stable@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ 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