On 2008-02-14 10:11:54 -0600, John Salmon wrote: [...] > Noting that this could be a problem, I followed the book and ran 'dircolors > -p > colors'. I edited the 'colors' file to make '.bmp' files show as bold > black on cyan and then ran 'dircolors colors'. 'echo $LS_COLORS' showed no > change in the '.bmp' entry. 'ls -l' also showed no change.
Yes, dircolors doesn't change anything, and cannot change the parent environment. > Next, I ran 'dircolors > colors'. This put the actual commands in 'colors'. > I made the changes to the '.bmp' entry, made the file executable and ran > it. Still no change. Same problem. If you run the file, it will only change its environment, not the environment of your shell (which is the parent environment). You need to *source* the file so that it is interpreted in the environment of your shell. > I then got into the 'colors' file and cut the first (long) line. I pasted > this line into me command prompt and exrcuted it. > I also ran 'export LS_COLORS'. This DID change 'LS_COLORS' to the value > I wanted, but running 'ls -l' showed still bm on white. I have no explanations for that. Does something like LS_COLORS='*.bmp=01;35' ls file.bmp (with the values you want) work? -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
