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Date:      Tue, 21 Mar 2000 17:45:30 -0800 (PST)
From:      R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@speakeasy.org>
To:        Matthew Jonkman <jonkman@jonkmangarage.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Shell Color Coding
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003211742580.2701-100000@mammalia.sea>
In-Reply-To: <014101bf9397$e47e7220$030a0a0a@jonkmangarage.com>

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On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Matthew Jonkman wrote:

> A while ago I saw a little app that would color code the files and
> directories in a shell. I think it was on a linux box which probably does
> that by default.
> 
> Does anyone know of a similar deal for freebsd? Seems like that would save a
> boat-load of time scanning for certain things in ls outputs.
> 
I use "gnuls" (/usr/ports/misc/gnuls).  
Then I added the line [alias ls='gnuls --color=always'] to ~/.profile and
~/.bashrc.  If you're not using bash, put the alias in whatever shell
dotfiles you have.



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