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RE: Any FAQ's on colour ls?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Williamson)
Sun Nov 29 08:12:21 1998
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 07:12:00 -0600 (CST)
From: jwilli@abitasprings.com (Jeff Williamson)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9811282207230.18968-100000@server.moongroup.com>
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if you add it to your .bashrc instead, color will show up everywhere.
jeff
On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, Chuck Mead wrote:
> 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/
>
> This isn't true in practice -- what we've missed out is Stradivarius's
> 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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