On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 02:09:08PM EST, Edward J. Shornock wrote: > * Chris Jones <cjns1...@gmail.com> [20-12-2008 06:27 EET]: > > My .bashrc has the usual: > > > > eval `dircolors -b` > > [...] > > > So I figured I just needed to issue a "dircolors -p .dircolors" .. edit > > the .dircolors file to my liking .. and then follow up with a "dircolors > > -b .dircolors" and that should do it, right? > > > All that should be needed is > dircolors -p > ~/.dircolors > edit ~/.dircolors to your liking > test your edits with "eval `dircolors ~/.dircolors`" > > If you're happy with your results, change ~/.bashrc from > eval `dircolors -b` > to read > eval `dircolors -b ~/.dircolors` > > Or you can--of course--just set LS_COLORS manually. > > It's working as it should with Debian Sid installation. > > $ dircolors --version > dircolors (GNU coreutils) 6.10
Thanks a bunch! The above absolutely did the trick .. why this wasn't working earlier is a mystery .. since I could've sworn I was doing exactly the same thing. With about 100 colors in my .dircolors .. ls output on my test directory now looks like a bloody rainbow. Sigh ... I will probably never know why this was not working earlier. My guess is that there was some kind of syntax error in my input file and that dircolors silently exited w/o an error message or anything. Bastard doesn't have a "verbose" option that I could see. Thanks again and Merry Xmas! CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
