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Date:      Thu, 09 Nov 2000 06:59:06 -0600
From:      Drew Sanford <lauasanf@bellsouth.net>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
Cc:        Veronica Hunt <vhunt@satx.rr.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: umm.. colors?
Message-ID:  <3A0A9F9A.3ECE9437@bellsouth.net>
References:  <004b01c049fb$4360a500$0302a8c0@cleopatra> <20001108212708.B2156@dan.emsphone.com>

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Dan Nelson wrote:
> 
> In the last episode (Nov 08), Veronica Hunt said:
> > i installed freebsd like 5 years ago, and at that time I thought it
> > even had color in its dir listing??  maybe I did something to do
> > this.. but then I went to slackware and forgot about it..  well i
> > have done the linux thing for about 5 years, so i am switching to
> > freebsd to learn this excisting o/s.. can freebsd do the color in
> > dirs like linux?  thanks.
> 
> Color directory listings has nothing to do with the OS you're running.
> It all depends on the "ls" program.  FreeBSD has historically not had a
> color ls, and you had to install either the "colorls" or "linuxls" from
> ports.  FreeBSD 4.1 and later versions now have an ls that can be told
> to print in color, though.
> 

I aliased ls to ls -FGb, that appears to work just fine.

-- 
Drew Sanford
lauasanf@bellsouth.net or drew@planetwe.com


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