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Re: ls color for bad symbolic link



On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 19:29:22 -0500, Tong <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks everyone for the respond... yet I'm still looking for the answer
> that I want -- the fact is I have no problem showing colors using ls. Just
> need to distinguish bad symbolic link from good ones.

Check out "info dircolors".  Specifically, from the compiled-in
defaults after running "eval `dircolors`" and typing "ls --color"
(which I usually don't use), a good link shows up in cyan while a bad
link shows up as red on black.

-- 
Michael A. Marsh
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh



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