On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 06:03:19PM -0400, Gerald S Stoller wrote: > FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 > > I am trying to put color in some of my messages (I am using > Xwindows ). One place where I found mention of color is in the manual > page of the ls command (search in there for the string "COLOR". I > picked a window and in it set TERM to xterm-color and exported it, > set CLICOLOR to a nonnull value and exported it, set LSCOLORS to the > default value mentioned there and exported it. Did an ls -l but it > showed up as usual. Then tried changing TERM to cons25 (also > mentioned in the man page) and exported it. Still nothing. > Can anyone direct me to documentation that will tell me how to > insert color in messages, both the fone and the backgroun, or write to me > how to do it? Thanks in advance.
Try using `ls -G` for color output in ls. If that works, just put an alias in your shells config file. For bash it would look something like: alias ls='ls -G' don't know about other shells, though. Nathan -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys D8527E49
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