[Tfug] Color LS

Ryan Mansager tfug@tfug.org
Sat Jun 15 02:00:01 2002


 freebsd has supported colorized listings with -G since 4.1.
 I don't know if the same goes for the other bsds -r


On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, Justin Zeigler wrote:

> ls, as provided by the bsd's, does not have a color option. In order to
> get color ls, you need to to install the port 'gnuls'. it can be found
> in /usr/ports/misc/gnuls. There is also a pacage available via ftp:
>  ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.1/packages/$ARCH/gnuls-4.1.tgz
> 
> I generally add the following line to my profile:
> 
> alias ls='gnuls --color=auto'
> 
> hope this helps :)
> 
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 11:18:38PM -0700, Steven Bowers wrote:
> | I'm trying to locate a HOWTO or other instructions for getting color ls in OpenBSD 3.1. Most of what I've found is somewhat incomplete. Can anyone point me to a resource?
> | 
> | Steve
> ---end quoted text---
> 
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