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Date:      Fri, 11 Jan 2002 23:20:36 +1100
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: can ls be colorized?
Message-ID:  <20020111232036.N823@k7.mavetju.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020111120320.GA283@debian.local>; from ac@acampbell.org.uk on Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 12:03:20PM %2B0000
References:  <20020111120320.GA283@debian.local>

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On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 12:03:20PM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> Is it possible to get the output of ls to be colorized in xterms?
> 
> I have colordepth = 16, and can have the cursor in colour, but ls -G
> doesn't produce colour output. 

You have to make sure that your TERM variable is xterm-color, not
"just" xterm.

Edwin

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