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Re: coloured console



On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 12:20:04AM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote:
| Can anyone remind me which package to install to get my console to colour code
| things? Currently it's all white text...
| 
| (Tried googling and apt-cache search with no luck.)
| 
| thanks
| lex
| 
| 

hello,

take a look in your ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc. the settings are
(probably) there and just commented out.

i have this in my .bash_profile:

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
    source ~/.bashrc
fi

and this in my .bashrc:

    eval `dircolors`
    alias ls='ls --color=auto '

good luck,
jason

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