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From: "Barry Byrne" <barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com>
To: "Kirk R. Wythers" <kwythers@umn.edu>,
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Subject: RE: any bash guru's out there?
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 16:11:51 -0000
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Kirk:

No need to muck with the shell.

Just use the -F option with ls.

man ls for further details.

Cheers,

Barry

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Barry Byrne, IT Manager,
WBT Systems, Block 2, Harcourt Centre
Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, Ireland


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Kirk R. Wythers
> Sent: 13 March 2002 15:57
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: any bash guru's out there?
> 
> 
> I would like to add some functionality to bash. I'd like to be able to
> distinguish at a glance, a file from a directory, from a sym link in a
> console... I've seen this don with different colors in a console or (in
> monochrome) with a / at the beginning of directory name, and a @ at the
> beginning of a sym link.
> 
> Can someone point me to a location that discusses this?
> 
> -- 
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> Kirk R. Wythers				email: kwythers@umn.edu
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