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RE: Any FAQ's on colour ls?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck Mead)
Sat Nov 28 21:17:33 1998
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 21:17:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Chuck Mead <chuck@moongroup.com>
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On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, Fred W. Noltie Jr. wrote:
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> On 29-Nov-98 Chip Rose. spluttered:
> # Can anyone give me a pointer to a Howto or FAQ so that I can get
> # colour in my
> # xterm/console? I'd just like to do the basics with one colour for
> # files, and one
> # colour for directories. I'll get fancy later on.. I read the Howto
> # listed
> # below, but couldn't seem to get things working. I've got
> # fileutils-3.16-6
> # installed on Redhat 5.0.
>
> Add the following line to your .bashrc:
>
> # alias ls='ls -F --color=tty'
>
> (drop the initial '#' of course)
>
> You'll have to log out & log back in for the change to take effect.
>
And then if you want color ls capability in your xterms in X add this
as the first line in your .xinitrc
alias ls='ls --color' &
Cheers!
--
Chuck Mead, CEO - Moongroup Consulting, Inc. <chuck@moongroup.com>
http://www.moongroup.com/
http://www.moongroup.com/unix/
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constant. And then the aside: "For those of you who don't know, that's
been called by others the fiddle factor..."
-- From a 1B Electrical Engineering lecture.
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