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Re: `Color ls' from a bash$ window
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: `Color ls' from a bash$ window
- From: Paul Kirkaas <pki at cri dot dk>
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 11:54:43 +0100
On 22-Oct-97 "$Bill Luebkert" wrote:
> Victor Schneider wrote:
>>
>> At no extra cost, you can get your bash$ window ls listings colorized
>> Enclosed is a .bashrc file that you can use:
>> ========================================================================
>> alias ls="ls -CF --color"
> In my experience is is a bad idea to alias a command to itself (with
> args),
> it has caused me problems in the past and I have quite doing it.
>
> Alias l to ls and m to less or some such.
Or, what I do, which works okay, is to use functions -- like:
...........
function fcd () { pushd . > /dev/null ; \cd $1 ; PS1="$LOGNAME$ANGLE " ;
setlabels ; }
alias cd=fcd
..............
Note of couse the escaped \cd in the function call.
Paul
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Paul Kirkaas
pki@cri.dk
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