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Date:      Mon, 10 Jun 1996 17:39:15 -0600
From:      Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov>
To:        bradb@erinet.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: help with freebsd.
Message-ID:  <199606102339.XAA07823@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov>
In-Reply-To: <31BB4C6A.2FDD@erinet.com> (message from Trencher on Sun, 09 Jun 1996 18:12:58 -0400)

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>>>>> "Trencher" == Trencher  <bradb@erinet.com> writes:

    Trencher> well i have a suggestion. why not make the ls command in
    Trencher> freebsd have a extra display to show if the file is
    Trencher> executable or not.

Try ``ls -F'' for that.

Type ``man ls'' for all the other nifty characters that ls will add to
your display.

And if you're running X windows, install the color_xterm port and the
colorls port, and you can get different colors for different meanings.

    Trencher> these would help a newbie greatly like ME!!!!!!

Or even an old hand (first touched Unix in 1978).  I still have

	alias ls '/bin/ls -F'

in my .cshrc file.

    Trencher> another thing when installing it for the first time. i
    Trencher> think there should be a display that says here are some
    Trencher> of the commands you will need to get around.

Definitely.  Perhaps in some of the forthcoming FreeBSD books things
like that might be covered.

-- 
Sean Kelly                          
NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory    kelly@fsl.noaa.gov
Boulder Colorado USA                http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/



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