Carl Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have XTerm handling colors, and 'ls' will also generate colors, but > only for file types such as directories and executables. The > 'dircolors' executable just sets up "LS_COLORS=''", which isn't very > useful. The documentation for 'dircolors' refers to using 'dircolors > --print-data-base' for help on what format to use, so I saved the > output and tried running dircolors on it, but it still sets LS_COLORS > to a null string. Does anybody have any information on how to get > 'ls' to colorize files by file name, such as the old color-ls used to > do? Unless I am completely missing something obvious, it looks like > either 'dircolors' doesn't work, or the documentation is completely > wrong (this is running on Debian 1.2).
I am following up to my original message after a few helpful messages. I have it working now, but what worries me is that I was doing everything right before. I tried using dpkg to re-install fileutils and libc5, but it still didn't work, so I then re-booted and dircolors started working properly. The problem was 'dircolors' and not 'ls', since as I said before running 'dircolors' by itself gave a null string for LS_COLORS. I am sure that I have rebooted since I upgraded from 1.1, but I don't know why this time got everything working. Maybe fileutils or libc5 hadn't properly upgraded before. Anyways, thanks for the very helpful replies. -- Carl Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
