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Re: color ls




On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:

> > You can just put:
> >	eval `dircolors`
> > in your startup script .profile, .tcshrc, .login or whatever... it sets
> > the color-ls environment appropriately for whatever shell you use.
> 
> Are you sure, or am I doing something wrong? Dircolors doesn't turn on the
> colors for me. It does set LS_COLORS, but I have to set the alias too. I'm
> using fileutils 3.13-4 from "unstable". Maybe it's a stable vs. unstable
> difference, or maybe you have that alias set and you didn't notice.

 I'm in a pretty Linux-unfriendly environment here, so any Linux boxes I
log into get the single eval `dircolors` from tcsh and everything works
great.  However, I AM using fileutils 3.12-4, so I guess it is a
stable/unstable issue -- what a shame, color-ls is pretty slick...

-J.

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