Re: how to get color ls display?

[Bob Hilliard <hilliard@flinet.com>]

     Also see man ls "DISPLAY COLORIZATION", which says:
       You  can override the default colors by defining the envi-
       ronment variable LS_COLORS (or LS_COLOURS).

     The current version of ls handles colors differently than the
version I used in Slackware.

Remco Blaakmeer <remco@Cal011205.student.utwente.nl> writes:
> cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> 
> On Tue, 26 May 1998, the lone gunman wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hello:
> > 
> > I recently installed Debian 1.3.1 that I purchased from Linux System
> > Labs.  I have had several problems, and cannot seem to find the
> > answers.
> > 
> > Getting color with ls!  I copied my /etc/DIR_COLORS from my old
> > slackware system to my new Debian system.  In my /etc/profile, I have
> > "dircolors -b" run, and then I alias ls="ls --color=auto".
> > 
> > Now, if I un-alias ls (that is, only dircolors is run), then NOTHING
> > is in color.  But with the alias, regardless of what I do with
> > dircolors, I get my lists in color, but not the custom colors I've
> > defined in /etc/DIR_COLORS.
> > 
> > What gives?
> 
> >From "info dircolors":
> 
>    `dircolors' outputs a sequence of shell commands to set up the
> terminal for color output from `ls' (and `dir', etc.).  Typical usage:
> 
>      eval `dircolors [OPTION]... [FILE]`
> 
>    If FILE is specified, `dircolors' reads it to determine which colors
> to use for which file types and extensions.  Otherwise, a precompiled
> database is used.  For details on the format of these files, run
> `dircolors --print-database'.
> 
> I think this gives enough information. I think you omitted the filename.
> 
> Remco

Bob
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