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RE: Any FAQ's on colour ls?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck Mead)
Sat Nov 28 22:06:52 1998
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 22:08:09 -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 Chuck Mead spluttered:
> # On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, Fred W. Noltie Jr. wrote:
> #
> # >
> # > 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' &
> #
>
> I have not found this to be necessary. I don't have it in my .xinitrc,
> and ls has color in my xterms. It's not in the system xinitrc either.
>
maybe it's 'cause I use rxvt... I dunno... I just know it didn't show
up until I did that.
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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