Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 11:20:22 +0200 From: "Patrick O'Reilly" <bsd@perimeter.co.za> To: "Kirk R. Wythers" <kwythers@umn.edu>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: any bash guru's out there? Message-ID: <006b01c1cb39$78fb15e0$b50d030a@patrick> References: <1016035044.1389.11.camel@lorax.forestry.umn.edu>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Kirk R. Wythers" <kwythers@umn.edu> > 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? > I've recently set "CLICOLOR=YES" in my profile. make sure your terminal supports color by setting your terminal type to "xterm-color", or whichever you prefer. The advantage of this solution is that ls is smart enough to suppress all the special characters from the output if the output device is not a color terminal, so this WILL NOT break any scripts which use ls. Do a 'man ls' and search for CLICOLOR . Regards, Patrick. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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