Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 13:42:35 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Mike Maltese <mike@pcmedx.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ls and color Message-ID: <3FD0DFAB.5060904@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <00fb01c3bb5d$ee483c90$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> References: <3FD0CCB5.1000501@magidesign.com> <00fb01c3bb5d$ee483c90$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com>
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Mike Maltese wrote: >>Is there a how to on making ls show colors or a web pages. Thanks. >> >> > >Well., there's ls -G, but you could have found that in the man page, right? > >ls is not a web browser. Try www/lynx. if you want to grab a web page, try >fetch or ftp/wget. > > > I think the OP meant "is there a how-to or a web page on making 'ls' show colors?" ls -G is the standard option, as man page says, equivalent to setting CLICOLOR in your environment. Some terminals (under X perhaps) don't handle this environment variable without some tweaking, though, I think..... ?? KDK
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