Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 20:41:44 +0000 From: rob <europax@home.com> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.ORG>, "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: make 'ls' in console color files like SuSE Message-ID: <39A82B88.D9F5E7E2@home.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000826202348.17059B-100000@xena.gsicomp.on.ca> <39A80073.8C79B6BF@home.com> <20000827025556.F64260@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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Ben Smithurst wrote: > > rob wrote: > > > Thank you. I will try it out- hopefully my ports collection will work. > > I think I may have made a big goof earlier today. I was having problems > > trying to make ports and getting broken internet links to the distfiles, > > so I installed the 5.0-current version of ports.tar.gz. > > If you mean the 5.0-current version of the /usr/ports tree, there is no > such thing really. There is only one version of the /usr/ports tree, > which works on both -current and the latest -stable. (It works fine on > 3-stable too, but I think it's only "guaranteed" to work on the latest > -stable.) If you're talking about the pre-compiled packages, they are > different for each FreeBSD version. (Though I guess you're not since > they're .tgz not .tar.gz.) > > -- > Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message That makes sense, since I could find ports.tar.gz in only one place on the ftp site. The ports collection I was using is off of the 4.0 CD set, and had some broken links to distfiles. I went ahead and installed the gnu fileutils. Although I realize now that I didn't have to, I figured out how colored 'ls' works on my Linux box, and now have a color 'ls' on this BSD machine. And learned a new thing about setting up my Bash shell- how to use aliases. Now I have only one problem, for some reason the files that should be colored red are not. Those would be .tgz .tar .gz etc. More hacking is needed. Rob. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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