On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Jason Bauer wrote: > Thanks for the alias settings help and the quick response! I've got > another question while i'm thinking of stuff. I used to run Slakware > linux until I heard about how much better Debian is. In Slakware, when I > did an ls it showed all of the files in colors according to their type, > while Debian does not. Where do I change it to display in color? >
Add into that list of aliases that you're setting in your .bashrc: alias ls='ls --color=tty' or alias ls='ls -F --color=tty' The Slackware system I used to have access to has disappeared (actually, it became a FreeBSD box), so I can't check which one of those emulates the behavior of ls on Slackware better - with the '-F' one gets a '/' appended to directory names, a '*' appended to the names of executables, etc. I seem to remember that Slackware did that, but you might not want to do it since always having a '-F' in ls can screw up things like: ls | grep 'tar.gz$' which would now only find those files ending in tar.gz that were not executable. Oh, and you probably want --color=tty and not --color. To see the difference, do the following on a directory with many colored files: alias ls='ls' ls --color ls --color | less ls --color=tty ls --color=tty | less You might also want to play around with the environment variable LS_COLORS - 'man ls' for details. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
