Re: listing directory contents with color

[David Z Maze <dmaze@debian.org>]

Alphonse Ogulla <ogulla@uonbi.ac.ke> writes:

> How do I get ls to list directory contents with color without passing the 
> --color option everytime?

My shell dotfiles (for zsh, but this should work for any modern Bourne
shell) have:

  ls() { /bin/ls --color --classify "$@"; }

which implements this functionality as a shell function.

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