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Date:      Sat, 22 Sep 2001 09:52:42 +1000
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        David Loszewski <stealth215@mediaone.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: making the shell more entertaining
Message-ID:  <20010922095242.E10641@k7.mavetju.org>
In-Reply-To: <004901c142f7$b55b4f20$3000b1d8@sickness>; from stealth215@mediaone.net on Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 07:46:57PM -0400
References:  <004901c142f7$b55b4f20$3000b1d8@sickness>

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On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 07:46:57PM -0400, David Loszewski wrote:
> I tried to make the shell a little more entertaining so I put "alias
> ls='ls --color --classify" in the .profile.  But then when I type 'ls'
> it says that -classify isn't a file or directory.  Ideas?

If you do "man ls", you'll see that --color and --classify are not
in the list of options. I don't know what --classify does, but
--color could be emulated with -G.

Edwin

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