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RE: Any FAQ's on colour ls?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John H Darrah)
Sun Nov 29 16:05:09 1998
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:04:20 -0800 (PST)
From: John H Darrah <jhd@giddens.com>
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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:
> > # 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.
The reason is because your rxvt/xterm is not
started using the "-ls" switch. This switch causes
your shell to be a "login" shell... see the
xterm/rxvt man page.
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