Re: ls nitpick

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On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 09:38:01PM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote:
> Russ Schneider wrote:
> >When you do an ls on Debian, you see something like the following:
> >file1  file2  file3  dir1
> >dir2   file4
> >
> >etc.
> >
> >When you do the same on Mandrake, you get
> >file1  file2  file3  dir1/
> >dir2/  file4
> >
> >You see how there's a / at the end of each directory name, making it
> >really easy to tell at a glance what's a directory and what's not?
> >
> >Any way to config Debian's ls to do that?  I realize it's just a nitpick, 
> >but I am curious.
> >

This is the "-p" switch to ls.  I guess what most people tell you to do 
is create a "ls" command earlier in your path or in /usr/local/bin that 
calls "/bin/ls -p $*".

I think there's something in /etc somewhere that controls this but I 
can't remember.

> 
> In your .bashrc file you can enable console colors. It's not the same, 
> but it's a way to differentiate different types of files (the default is 
> dir's re a bluish color, executables are green, plain files (html, txt, 
> mp3's etc.) are white/gray and archives are red).