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Re: Colors in shell
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Colors in shell
- From: mh at mike dot franken dot de (Michael Hirmke)
- Date: 11 Apr 1998 13:42:00 +0200
- Organization: Kommunikationsnetz Franken e.V. (Nuernberg)
Hi Christopher,
>Okay all... Having some headaches here. :)
>
>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!
If you mean, you want to have colors in your ls output, use
alias ls='ls --color=tty'
in your .<shell>rc file.
*Don't use 'ls --color'*, because it will give you weird output, when
piping ls output for example through less.
>
>Thanks
Bye.
Michael.
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