Re: HELP color-ls not working.....

[Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@ucsd.edu>]

On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Michael J. Cotherman wrote:

> I get the following when I eval color-ls, but do not get colors...
> As you can see, I did do the color=yes thingy
> any help would be appreciated...

Michael, if you are still running fileutils-3.12, and you have color-ls
installed, then the command `eval dircolors` should execute the commands
you show below, and your ls should be colorized on tty terminals.  By
default, this included the console, xterm-color, rxvt, etc.  If you are
using the latest fileutils-3.13, then you need to do something else (see
below).

> LS_COLORS='no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:ex=01;32:*.cmd=01;32:*.exe=01;32:*.com=01;32:*.btm=01;32:*.bat=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.gz=01;31
:*.jpg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:';
> export LS_COLORS;
> LS_OPTIONS='--8bit --color=tty -F';
> export LS_OPTIONS;
> alias ls='/usr/bin/color-ls $LS_OPTIONS ';
> alias dir='/usr/bin/color-ls $LS_OPTIONS --format=vertical';
> alias vdir='/usr/bin/color-ls $LS_OPTIONS --format=long';
> alias d=dir;
> alias v=vdir;

With the integration of color-ls directly into the fileutils
package, a few things have changed.  dircolors no longer sets
up aliases or shell scripts to colorize ls, dir, and vdir.

Here is an excerpt from a .bashrc which sets up aliases after
running dircolors:

	# set up color-ls
	eval `dircolors /home/syrus/.dir_colors`
	alias d='ls -F --color=auto'
	alias v='ls -l --color=auto'
	alias vdir='ls -l --color=auto'
	alias dir='ls -F --color=auto'                                                 

Note that color=tty has been changes to color=auto.  See the
documentation for other change information.

Syrus.


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Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@ucsd.edu>    UCSD Physics Dept.