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Date:      Tue, 19 May 1998 21:01:23 -0700
From:      Studded <Studded@dal.net>
To:        "JuSt pLaiN ol' me" <beef@cybertouch.org>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: setting an alias..
Message-ID:  <35625593.78B5F2B0@dal.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980519190137.347A-100000@cybertouch.org>

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JuSt pLaiN ol' me wrote:
> 
>          Hello,
> 
>         How (with the bash shell) do i set it so that when typing ls, it
> will actually do colorls -FG ?
> 
>         I tried in .profile putting alias ls = 'colorls -FG'

	You probably want to do that in ~/.bash_profile, and use ls='colorls
-FG' (notice no spaces around the =). 

Good luck,

Doug

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