Re: .bashrc (ls --color=auto setting)

[Paul Slootman <paul@murphy.nl>]

On Wed 30 Aug 2000, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > What you mean is actually done by dircolors, which checks the terminal type
> > in a rather dump way, using a database, and not verifying termcaps:
> 
> Why do you need to run dircolors anyway? I don't and I still get
> coloured output..

Then you must have some other arrangement to get the colors;
it's not enabled by default. Try a fresh install (I have).
Maybe a direct setting of LS_COLORS in your .bash_profile or 
whatever?

Paul Slootman
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