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Date:      01 Nov 2003 13:27:21 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        "SWIT" <mark@s-wit.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: color to files
Message-ID:  <448yn0uepi.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <001901c3a09c$58347100$0100000a@Biggie>
References:  <200310111243.08231.jason@dictos.com> <035501c3909c$3d1dd8d0$a4b826cb@goo> <001c01c3a082$afab7d30$0100000a@Biggie> <20031101072337.48e9d54f.xcas@cox.net> <001901c3a09c$58347100$0100000a@Biggie>

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> From: "Greg J." <xcas@cox.net>
> To: "SWIT" <mark@s-wit.net>
> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 9:23 AM
> Subject: Re: color to files
> 
> 
> > On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 09:16:01 -0500
> > "SWIT" <mark@s-wit.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Is there a way to make the directories to show in color when doing a
> > > ls ? thanks
> > > mark
> >
> > ls -G
> >
> > man ls :)

"SWIT" <mark@s-wit.net> writes:

> I did this and got nothing.,

Then get a termtype that supports it.  On recent FreeBSD releases, it
should work out of the box on xterm and the text console.

> A webpage - i can't remember which one said I need to load a program from
> the ports which I had installed and still got no colors.

The Gnu ls, probably.  That should do it too.



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