From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 21 16:58: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chmls06.mediaone.net (chmls06.mediaone.net [24.147.1.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21F8F37B41A for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 16:58:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sickness (test4.peter.Metro2000.NET [216.177.0.48]) by chmls06.mediaone.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f8LNwDh16047; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 19:58:13 -0400 (EDT) From: "David Loszewski" To: "'Edwin Groothuis'" Cc: Subject: RE: making the shell more entertaining Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 19:57:16 -0400 Message-ID: <005001c142f9$25685910$3000b1d8@sickness> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 In-Reply-To: <20010922095242.E10641@k7.mavetju.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yea, sorry, I'm from Linux and they work in Linux and was hoping they'd work in FreeBSD which they obviously didn't. --classify is to show what's a directory or a file and etc... Dave -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Edwin Groothuis Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 7:53 PM To: David Loszewski Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: making the shell more entertaining On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 07:46:57PM -0400, David Loszewski wrote: > I tried to make the shell a little more entertaining so I put "alias > ls='ls --color --classify" in the .profile. But then when I type 'ls' > it says that -classify isn't a file or directory. Ideas? If you do "man ls", you'll see that --color and --classify are not in the list of options. I don't know what --classify does, but --color could be emulated with -G. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message