From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 21 17:51:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grace.speakeasy.org (grace.speakeasy.org [216.254.0.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36CE637BBA3 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 17:51:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rjoseph@speakeasy.org) Received: from 06-077.009.popsite.net (06-077.009.popsite.net [207.227.232.77]) by grace.speakeasy.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA31351; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 17:51:34 -0800 Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 17:45:30 -0800 (PST) From: R Joseph Wright X-Sender: rjoseph@mammalia.sea To: Matthew Jonkman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Shell Color Coding In-Reply-To: <014101bf9397$e47e7220$030a0a0a@jonkmangarage.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Matthew Jonkman wrote: > A while ago I saw a little app that would color code the files and > directories in a shell. I think it was on a linux box which probably does > that by default. > > Does anyone know of a similar deal for freebsd? Seems like that would save a > boat-load of time scanning for certain things in ls outputs. > I use "gnuls" (/usr/ports/misc/gnuls). Then I added the line [alias ls='gnuls --color=always'] to ~/.profile and ~/.bashrc. If you're not using bash, put the alias in whatever shell dotfiles you have. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message