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Date:      Thu, 13 Jun 2019 20:34:44 +1000
From:      andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com>
Cc:        Amit Yaron <amit@phpandmore.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Editing LSCOLORS
Message-ID:  <20190613103444.7gw72zjmntu6hy37@ozzmosis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190605044713.nztgi4tfufcnayeu@ozzmosis.com>
References:  <c7f5b6d5-0116-e761-256d-ee68214ab683@phpandmore.net> <20190605044713.nztgi4tfufcnayeu@ozzmosis.com>

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On Wed 2019-06-05 14:47:13 UTC+1000, andrew clarke (mail@ozzmosis.com) wr=
ote:

> On Tue 2019-06-04 11:07:00 UTC+0300, Amit Yaron (amit@phpandmore.net) w=
rote:
>=20
> > Do you know of a nice way to edit the environment variable LSCOLORS i=
n
> > FreeBSD 12.0?
> > I don't want the name of a directory printed in blue on the dark back=
ground
> > of my terminal.
>=20
> There's a handy online LSCOLORS generator by Geoff Greer that I discove=
red a
> few weeks ago:
>=20
> https://geoff.greer.fm/lscolors/
>=20
> FreeBSD's ls is a bit limited, but GNU ls can be installed with the
> sysutils/coreutils port.

Quick update:

I've since discovered exa, an alternative to ls.

"exa is an improved file lister with more features and better defaults. I=
t
uses colours to distinguish file types and metadata. It knows about
symlinks, extended attributes, and Git. And it=E2=80=99s small, fast, and=
 just one
single binary."

https://the.exa.website/

It's at sysutils/exa in the FreeBSD ports tree.



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