From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 4 12:12:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.wxs.nl (smtp01.wxs.nl [195.121.6.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D3A5150D0 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 12:12:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.199.38]) by smtp01.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA4E52; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 21:12:03 +0200 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA96281; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 21:10:55 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 21:10:55 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Rbi Cc: big-sky@altavista.net, Freebsd-Questions Subject: Re: colorls question Message-ID: <19991004211055.C96050@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <000001bf0e93$7328d360$0201010a@cmr.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On [19991004 20:49], Rbi (rbi@techzone.cx) wrote: >I guess you could just create an shell alias for "ls" that uses colorls >and it's switches. ( example - alias ls="colorls -GAFT) And which is preferred since you then know that you haven't messed with the system's standard command which might be needed by other programs with any particular flags. Also, what also works is putting ~/bin as the first path statement in your PATH and cp colorls to ~/bin/ls and when you type ls it will us the first ls it can find, which is based in ~/bin HTH, -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best Sometimes the blind see more than those who see... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message