Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 09:45:01 -0700 From: Chris Pressey <cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> To: Damian Gerow <damian@sentex.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cat a directory Message-ID: <20030922094501.587d3e7c.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <20030922160115.GA40572@sentex.net> References: <JA8AAAAAAgH8RAABYQADV7qgzdhU@master.hel.fi> <20030919083627.K99065@wonkity.com> <JA8AAAAAAgMHPAABYQADV7qgzdhU@master.hel.fi> <mailman.1064246223.2719.fquestions-l@lists.sentex.ca> <20030922160115.GA40572@sentex.net>
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On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 12:01:15 -0400 Damian Gerow <damian@sentex.net> wrote: > Thus spake Chris Pressey (cpressey@catseye.mine.nu) [22/09/03 11:54]: > > Also, I believe 'GNU ls', in the ports, supports coloured directory > > listings. > > As does FreeBSD's ls. From 'man 1 ls': > > -G Enable colorized output. This option is equivalent to > defining CLICOLOR in the environment. (See below.) Yes, but actually, I was mistaken; neither FreeBSD's ls nor GNU ls seems to support coloured directory listings in the style the OP indicated: > [Mikael Karlsson] > As it would make finding certain files easier by coloring them > differently depending on their ending. I can't find any way to get either of these ls programs to colour based on (say) sh-style regexps. But there's probably a program out there somewhere that does... -Chris
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