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RE: Colors in shell
- To: GNU-Win32 Project <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: Colors in shell
- From: "Cook, John" <John dot Cook at kla-tencor dot com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 09:49:58 -0700
This alias is safer:
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
With the one below, the terminal color codes might cause
trouble when the output of ls is not to the console.
--John
> ----------
> From: Christopher Sexton[SMTP:chsexton@vt.edu]
> Sent: Friday, April 10, 1998 2:26 PM
> To: GNU-Win32 Project
> Subject: Re: Colors in shell
>
>
> >How do I get colors? You know, blue for directories, red for links,
> and so
> >on and so on?
> >I mostly utilize the tcsh shell, and have a setenv LS_COLORS line in
> my
> >.tcshrc file, but I get nothing.
> >Any help would be great!
>
> do you mean colors for "ls", if that is all make a alais for ls set to
> "ls
> --color"
>
> the line in the rc file is like this: alias ls="ls --color"
>
> at least that is what I think you are looking for.
>
> CRS
>
>
> <><
>
> Christopher Sexton
> remedy@vt.edu
>
> http://sexton.home.ml.org
> UIN: 559124
>
> "if they give you ruled paper, write the other way."
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