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Re[2]: dircolors DOES NOT WORK
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (W.D.McKinney)
Tue Nov 12 19:24:22 1996
From: "W.D.McKinney" <deem@deesign.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 15:02:43 -0900 (AKST)
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Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, chris parman wrote:
>
> > Heres what I did. I put ---> alias ls='ls --color' , in the .bashrc file
> > or you can put ---> alias ls 'ls --color' , in the .tcshrc file. It may
> > also work in the profile in /etc, but I haven't tested it yet.
>
> It's a better idea to put "alias ls='ls --color=auto'" in your rc files. That
> will keep ls from spitting out colors to a non-tty (i.e. ls | grep foo).
>
> Erik
Erik is right on the money.
Try putting that line in .bashrc in your user subdirectory.
Works excellent under my RHCL 4.0 sys.
Regards,
-Dee
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