On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 12:51:33AM -0400, Shaleh wrote: > The ls that comes w/ Debian supports colors. However it is off by > default (do not ask why). You need to add a line to /etc/profile that > says "alias ls="ls --color=auto". This wll make ls give colored > output. You can also put that line in your own .bash_profile -- putting > it in /etc/profile makes it work for ALL users. Note that it must also go into .bashrc if you use X or screen since these shells are non-login and the profiles aren't run for those. My alias is ls='ls --color=auto -f' because it looks good that way to me. Over telnet, I would want -f only for obvious reasons (telnet is SLOOOOOOW!)
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