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Date:      Mon, 13 May 1996 19:52:08 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        Francisco.Reyes@i-2000.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: colored prompts in BASH
Message-ID:  <199605131022.TAA19304@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199605130347.XAA12617@i-2000.com> from "Francisco Reyes" at May 12, 96 11:46:11 pm

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Francisco Reyes stands accused of saying:
> At work there is one Linux computer and the bash shell there
> has color prompts for different types of files. I have FreeBSD
> at home and I would like to have colored prompts.
> 

Grrr, terminology.  They aren't "prompts".  What you are seeing is the
Linux 'ls' command, which uses colour.  This is available for FreeBSD in the
ports collection as 'linuxls'; 'colorls' is another variation on the same
thing.

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