On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 09:09:23PM +0100, Andreas Sliwka wrote: > Hi, how do I configure the colors ls shows? I cant find any kind of > manual for this ... neither man ls nor info ls nor > /usr/share/doc/fileutils ...
>From man ls: --color[=WHEN] control whether color is used to distinguish file types. WHEN may be `never', `always', or `auto' I have this in my $HOME/.bashrc: export LS_OPTIONS='--color=auto' eval `dircolors` alias ls='ls -F $LS_OPTIONS' #The -F appends a character for type. alias ll='ls $LS_OPTIONS -l' alias l='ls $LS_OPTIONS -lA' -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +----------------------------------------------------+