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Hi I am reletively new at BSD and I figured out how to change to a bash shell but how do I make it color? I mean the text is ...
- 01-18-2006 #1Linux Engineer
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color in shell
Hi I am reletively new at BSD and I figured out how to change to a bash shell but how do I make it color? I mean the text is all black now and when I type ls I want the programs to be colored like green for exe and blue for directory that type stuff.
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- 01-19-2006 #2Linux Enthusiast
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Try aliasing ls to "ls --color=tty" or something like that. You can put a line like this in your .bashrc
Code:alias ls="ls --color=tty"
- 01-19-2006 #3Linux Engineer
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I may be wrong, but I think "ls --color" only works on Linux. On FreeBSD, the equivalent would be "ls -G". Check the manual page for ls to be sure.
Originally Posted by spoon!
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It's the ls from coreutils that has the --color switch, if you install(ed) coreutils then it will be called gls. I always preferred that one over the default fbsd one.
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