2009/3/23 Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com>: > Oh, OK. <Dale waves hand over head.> If it is set up to add that > option, how do you tell it not to use it?
alias ls='/bin/ls --color' alias l='ls -l' With these aliases in your .bashrc (or whatever is appropriate in your environment), you can now use 'ls' and 'l'. Of course, you already had 'ls' (namely /bin/ls). If you simply type 'ls' then you are using the alias and you get colour output. If you don't want colour output you use '/bin/ls' (the actual binary). Typing 'l' basically runs '/bin/ls --color -l'. If you don't want that then you don't use 'l'.
