on Mon, Apr 08, 2002, Crispin Wellington (crispin@aeonline.net) wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 14:15, Ross Tsolakidis wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > Simple question...
> >
> > In Redhat by default, in a terminal when you do a dir listing, the files are
> > color coded.. dirs, executables, text... etc...
> > How can I do this on Debian ?
> >
> > Running Debian Sparc Woody.
>
> ls --color
>
> For permanence. Add
>
> alias ls="ls --color"
>
> to your .bashrc file.
May I suggest:
alias ls="ls --color=auto"
...which toggles color on and off depending on whether stdout is a
terminal or a pipe.
> Personally I find it lurid and annoying :)
That was my initial take some years ago. Now I find Unices which lack a
colorized ls depriving. Color is a good cue.
Peace.
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