From:	kunglao AT prairienet DOT org (Gilligan)
Subject:	Re: Colors in bash
15 Aug 1997 16:04:51 -0700 :
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Bryon Roche wrote:
> 
> Sarir Khamsi wrote:
> >
> > Yo,
> >
> > Is there a way to get color happening in bash, like the output of ls
> > having different colors for different types of files? I looked all
> > through the FAQ and old messages but did not find anything. Thanks.
> You can go and find the color-ls patch from the slackware
> distribution.
> I had a hack that worked with
> djgpp, but I don't anymore. (at least the last time I checked.)

The stock b18 ls allows color, you just have to feed it the --color
option and add the output of the dircolors command to your .bashrc to
setup the LS_COLORS env var.

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