Re: Color-ls package nearly ready for release, but I need...
Hi,
>>"Syrus" == Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@ucsd.edu> writes:
Syrus> (1) Can someone give me the proper syntax for making a symolic link
Syrus> for a command with options: specifically, i need to link the
Syrus> expression vdir to 'ls -li' because the color-ls patch consolidates
Syrus> dir, vdir, and ls into one binary. I tried ln -s 'ls -li' vdir,
Syrus> but did not get the desired effect.
Ummm, I think you will have to make vdir be a simple shell
script that calls ls with the proper options. There is no way for a
sym link to specify options.
manoj
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