Re: ls in color

[Robin Gerard <robin.jag@free.fr>]

On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 06:59:14PM +0800, Johnny wrote:
> As of what I saw in slackware, ls is capable of displaying itz results in
> color. But up till what I have seen in debian, the ls in debian seems to be
> black and white. Can anyone tell me how to turn the color option on? btw
> ls --color=auto does not work
> 
with this .bashrc the results of "ls |less" are too coloured.

#------------------------------------------------------- 
# enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases
#-------------------------------------------------------

    alias ls='ls -hF --color'  # add colors for filetype recognition
    alias ll='ls -la |less '
    alias la='ls -A'
#   alias l='ls -CF'
    alias l='ls | less'
#   alias dir='ls --color=auto --format=vertical'
#   alias vdir='ls --color=auto --format=long'

#-----------------
# tailoring 'less'
#-----------------
   export PAGER=less
   export LESSCHARSET='latin1'
   export LESS='-i -w  -z-4 -g -M -X -F -R -P%t?f%f:stdin .?pb%pb\%:?lbLine %lb:?bbByte %bb:-...'
 

man less, explain the environment variables LESSCHARSET and LESS ....

hth
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Gerard