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Re: Any FAQ's on colour ls?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Burke)
Sun Nov 29 08:36:56 1998
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 08:38:57 -0500
From: Tom Burke <tomii@erols.com>
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Why would he need it in his .xinitrc to? Whenever a window opens,
it runs a new BASH shell, meaning that .bashrc is run as well...
- I've never needed to add it to my .xinitrc, anyway...
Chuck Mead wrote:
> 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/
>
> 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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