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Date:      24 May 2001 21:20:43 EST
From:      "Mark Sergeant" <msergeant@snsonline.net>
To:        Joel Dinel <dinjo@touchtunes.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ls and Eterm
Message-ID:  <200105250220.f4P2Kj005176@xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010524112506.A6407@dinjo.touchtunes.com>
References:  <20010524112506.A6407@dinjo.touchtunes.com>

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ensure your TERM is xterm-color and you'll be fine. in csh/tcsh setenv TERM
xterm-color , bash/sh/zsh/ksh? export TERM="xterm-color"

Cheers,

Mark

On Thu, 24 May 2001 11:25:06 -0400, Joel Dinel said:

:: I've got the following line in my .bash_profile:
::  LSCOLORS=4x5x1x3x2x464701060203
::  
::  And the following in my .bash_rc:
::  alias ls='ls -G'
::  
::  That gives me nice colored output in my consoles. When I'm using Eterm from my X
::  session, ls doesn't give me any colors whatsoever. How can I make it so?
::  
::  I've tried GnuLS, and that works. When I pipe it to 'less' or 'more', I
::  get mangled output (the color codes are printed out instead of the
::  actual color).
::  
::  Any tips? FreeBSD 4.3 -RELEASE. 
::  
::  Thanks!
::  

-- 
Mark Sergeant
Unix Systems Administrator

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"There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't
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