Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 10:39:49 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: durang@u.washington.edu (K. Marsh) Cc: nik@blueberry.co.uk, Lars_Koeller@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: colorls needs color-xterm? Message-ID: <199703260939.KAA13257@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.3.95b.970326005104.21820A-100000@goodall.u.washington.edu> from "K. Marsh" at "Mar 26, 97 00:56:18 am"
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> BACKGROUND INFO: I'm using fbsd 2.2.1, xfree86 3.2, and colorls-2.2, but > colorls still lists only in the foreground color. > > On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Nik Clayton wrote: > > > What happens if you do 'setenv TERM xterm-color' (or whatever's appropriate > > for your shell) before you 'ls'? > > 01:05:51 root #setenv TERM xterm-color > setenv: not found > 01:05:51 root #set TERM xterm-color What shell are you using ? The above error indicates that you are using a bourne flavor shell and thus the set TERM xterm-color won't set your TERM variable. The TERM variable setting is irrelevant for colorls to work (it could be TERM=dumb as well). > 01:05:51 root #colorls -Gl / > total 4555 > -rw-r--r-- 2 root wheel 317 Mar 15 23:39 .cshrc > -rw-r--r-- 2 root wheel 237 Mar 24 19:27 .profile > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 3425 Mar 15 23:39 COPYRIGHT > > etc, but no colors. No help. Thanks for trying. > > > Ken Marsh > > -- Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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